Number of months between 2 dates

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Terry

It depends on what you mean by a "month". If you'd be happy with how many 30
day chunks there are then something like the following should do it:

>define d-months int*5 &
>  = floor( (days(to-date) - days(from-date)) / 30)

If you want to know how many whole calendar months then the problem gets a
whole lot messier. And we'd need to know if your dates are mmddyyyy or
ddmmyyyy!

Regards,
John "no relation" Pickering

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Pickering [mailto:pickering@4j.lane.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:17 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Number of months between 2 dates


Does anyone have an algorithm around that would compute the number of full 
MONTHS between two dates? Example is the number of months between 7/12/1968 
and 10/8/2002.

Thanks!



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Terry Pickering