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dateDiff(date1, date2) Return the time difference between two dates in milliseconds. |
Function: dateDiff()
Return the time difference between two dates in milliseconds.Note that the
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This function includes any variance for daylight savings changes. |
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Use round() to remove these changes. |
Syntax
dateDiff(date1,date2)
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| date1 | Date | The original date/timedate or date-time. For the current date-time use the attribute function now(). |
| date2 | See Date Field-Time Functions: dateField | The date to be subtracted from date1. |
Examples
dateDiff(now(),"20080101.130000") | Returns the number of milliseconds since 1pm on 1st January 2008. |
round(dateDiff("20200410.000000","20191217.000000")/(1000*60*60*24),0) | Returns the number of days between April 10th 2020 and December 17th 2019. The round() call removes any variance for daylight savings shifts. |
See Also
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dateDiff(date1, date2) Return the time difference between two dates in milliseconds. |