Andy Lacey
andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Wed Jul 28 09:36:18 CDT 2004
True. Sorry. Should engage brain before fingers. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Dividing days into years and months Date: 28/07/04 11:26 > > Andy, > > The problem with DateDiff is that DateDiff("yyyy",#12/31/2003#,#1/1/2004#) = 1, which is hardly 1 year. > > Years would be DateDiff("d",begindate,enddate)/365 > Months would be (DateDiff("d",begindate,enddate)/365)*12 > Weeks would be (DateDiff("d",begindate,enddate)/365)*52 or DateDiff("d",begindate,enddate)/7 > Days would be DateDiff("d",begindate,enddate) > > Scott Marcus > TSS Technologies, Inc. > marcus at tsstech.com > (513) 772-7000 > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 7:10 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dividing days into years and months > > Hi Paul > > I'm guessing here but it sounds like you're talking about the number of > years etc between two dates. If that's true then check out the DateDiff > function and DateAdd functions. What you could do then is calc the DateDiff > in years, use DateAdd to add that number of years back onto your first date > then get the DateDiff between the new date and the original last date in > Months, then repeat to get the remaining number of days. > > If I've misinterpreted what you want I'm sorry. If I'm right but you need > more help let me/us know. > > > -- > Andy Lacey > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk > > > > --------- Original Message -------- > From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Subject: [AccessD] Dividing days into years and months > Date: 28/07/04 07:55 > > > > > Dear Experts > > > > I can divide in Access the days from a date() into years with a simple > > /365, but is there a way to have months and days ... so I have years, > months > > and days, please? > > > > Cheers paul > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2