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GOMONTH() conundrum
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29/11/1999 13:13:04
 
 
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29/11/1999 12:26:29
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00296419
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00296458
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>Hi folks!
>
>The GOMONTH() function, as you may know, returns a date that is "n" months ahead of or behind the supplied date value. For example, GOMONTH(DATE(),12) will return 11/29/2000. This is good.
>
>Now, the value of DATETIME() is 11/29/1999 12:22:23 PM. GOMONTH(DATETIME(),12) returns 12/29/2000 (yes, a date and not a datetime). This is bad.
>
>If you have something that goes into effect at 12:00:00 PM on 11/29/1999, what would you do to automatically determine that it expires 11:59:59 AM on 11/29/2000?
>
>I came up with a way but it's klunky. Anybody have any ideas?

Try:

FUNCTION AdvanceDateTimeByMonths
LPARAMETER ttDateTimeBase, tnNumMonths
LOCAL nSecsPassed
nSecsPased = ttDateTimeBase - DTOT(TTOD(ttDateTimeBase))
RETURN DTOT(GOMONTH(ttDateTimeBase,tnNumMonths)) + nSecsPassed - 1
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