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  • Subject: Re: Serial Date formula
  • From: "alan shore" <SHOREA@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:09:07 -0400

1900 was NOT a leap year.

>>> "Neil Palmer" <neilp@dpslink.com> 04/12/01 08:01PM >>>
So could the 2 day difference in the calculations be because someone isn't 
counting 1900 & 2000 as leap years ?

...Neil





"James W. Kilgore" <eMail@James-W-Kilgore.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 
2001/04/12 16:12
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The following gave me 1899-12-30 as the base date

 H
 DCURRDATE         S               D   DATFMT(*ISO) INZ(D'2001-03-18')
 DBASEDATE         S               D   DATFMT(*ISO) INZ(D'2001-03-18')
 C     CURRDATE      SUBDUR    36968:*D      BASEDATE
 C                   DSPLY                   BASEDATE
 C                   SETON                                        LR


Chris Beck wrote:
>
> Can someone tell the formula to convert 20010318  to 36968.
>
> This would be just like the DATEVALUE in Excel.
>


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