Re: Counting Days

From: Michael Kochendoerfer

Date: 4 May 2008

Additionally, you can use a date variable to loop, i.e. DO dLoop = TODAY 
TO TODAY + 14, if your conditions are too complex. We use it 
occasionally to sum up working days...

Michael


Geoff Crawford schrieb:
> At 02:28 PM 5/4/2008, Robert wrote:
>
>> Using Progress 9.1C on XP Pro.
>>
>> I need to know the amount of days between a known starting date and 
>> the end
>> of the current year.  Days cannot be Mondays or Fridays.  This 
>> routine also
>> needs to be usable in future years which of course includes leap years.
>>
>
> Number of days between dates in Progress is a simple subtraction:
>
> ASSIGN NumberField = EndDate - StartDate.
>
>
> From there, just adjust any additional/fewer days based on Monday or 
> Friday.
>
>
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