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  • Subject: Re: Timestamp Manipulation.
  • From: Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:26:09 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

At 09:38 AM 5/27/97, you wrote:

>  From: Tim Lennon on 27/05/97 09:39
  
>  How the !$%^@ do I calculate the duration between two timestamps?
>  The best I can think of - laughable I know - is to keep doing ADDDUR
>  1:*S until one timestamp equals the other.
>
>  I feel sure that there's a more elegant solution, but my brain seems
>  to flood each time I try and start the engine on this one.
>
>  Tim Lennon
>  Analyst/Programmer, Thomas Miller & Co.

 Why don't you try SUBDUR ?

 -mark

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