In Edward's example, you might want to consider to use the 4 character year to be Y2K.
? date()-ctod("01/01/"+str(year(date()))

-myron kirby-
myronk@flash.net
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>>>What would be the simpliest technique to calculate the number of days since the beginning of year?
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>>? date()-ctod("01/01/"+right(str(year(date()),4),2))
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>I should have thought more about this calculation. :) Thanks for the help.