RE: Calculating Duration in days/hours from timestamp field

["Hillier, Martin" <Martin.Hillier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Dean

Have you looked at the %DIFF BIF.

That rolls of the tongue nicely :-)

Cheers,
        Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Bathke [SMTP:dbathke@Quintrex.com]
> Sent: 21 May 2002 15:35
> To:   'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Calculating Duration in days/hours from  timestamp field
>
> Good morning, I am trying to calculate duration and it just seems that I
> am
> jumping through alot of hoops. We have dates stoerd as YYYYMMDD and TIme
> values as HHMMSSss. I was under the impression that I build 2 timestamps
> and
> then subdur but I am unsure if this is the way to go anyone have any
> pointers to gewt me in the right direction? I have been looking at the
> archieves at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
>
>
> Thanks all
> >
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