>>Hi everybody,
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>>I have strange problem. In SQL Server we have these two datetime values:
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>>2014-03-04 09:30:00.000	2014-03-04 10:00:00.000

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>>In VFP I have the following script
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>>(end_time - start_time)/3600
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>>and compare it with .5
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>>If it's less than .5 it should be true and otherwise it should be false.
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>>So, as we see here, the duration is exactly half an hour and I should get false. But I am getting true and I am not sure why and what may be wrong.
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>If you set the decimals to high value such as 8, the expression ends up resolving to .4999997132. Casting (end_time - start_time) as int also shows a result of 1799, indicating that the result evaluates to slightly less than the expected 1800. I would guess that there is a floating point issue with either one of the time's representations or the resulting subtraction.
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>The easiest way around it is to round the result of the subtraction or cast it to a currency.

Thank you.