>>>>Anyone know of an easy way to calculate the number of minutes between 2 dates. I am trying to store the elapsed time between 2 events
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>>Colin
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>>>If you have 2 datetime values, the difference will be in seconds and you can divide by 60 to get the minutes.
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>>>If you're using 2 date values, the difference will be in dates, and you can multiply by 24*60 to get minutes.
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>>Only if the day is 24*60*60 seconds long. It might be different sometimes, to be precise. You also have to check for time zones
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>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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>>:D
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>>And. not to forget, DST.
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>You wouldn't need to worry about that if your timestamps are in Universal Time.

I know. It will still not help to include shift-seconds, but it's a start. Also you loose all the nice build-in VFP functions.

:(

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