Re: Date Interval Functions

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From: Vilmar Brazăo de Oliveira (teste_at_teste.teste.teste)
Date: 02/16/04


Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:23:56 -0300

hi, this may help you:
 Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition
      DateDiff Function Language Reference
      Version 2

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Description
  Returns the number of intervals between two dates.
Syntax
  DateDiff(interval, date1, date2 [,firstdayofweek[, firstweekofyear]])
  The DateDiff function syntax has these parts:
        Part Description
        interval Required. String expression that is the interval you want
to use to calculate the differences between date1 and date2. See Settings
section for values.
        date1, date2 Required. Date expressions. Two dates you want to use
in the calculation.
        firstdayofweek Optional. Constant that specifies the day of the
week. If not specified, Sunday is assumed. See Settings section for values.
        firstweekofyear Optional. Constant that specifies the first week of
the year. If not specified, the first week is assumed to be the week in
which January 1 occurs. See Settings section for values.
Settings
  The interval argument can have the following values:
        Setting Description
        yyyy Year
        q Quarter
        m Month
        y Day of year
        d Day
        w Weekday
        ww Week of year
        h Hour
        n Minute
        s Second
  The firstdayofweek argument can have the following values:
        Constant Value Description
        vbUseSystem 0 Use National Language Support (NLS) API setting.
        vbSunday 1 Sunday (default)
        vbMonday 2 Monday
        vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
        vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
        vbThursday 5 Thursday
        vbFriday 6 Friday
        vbSaturday 7 Saturday
  The firstweekofyear argument can have the following values:
        Constant Value Description
        vbUseSystem 0 Use National Language Support (NLS) API setting.
        vbFirstJan1 1 Start with the week in which January 1 occurs
(default).
        vbFirstFourDays 2 Start with the week that has at least four days in
the new year.
        vbFirstFullWeek 3 Start with the first full weekof the new year.
Remarks
  You can use the DateDiff function to determine how many specified time
intervals exist between two dates. For example, you might use DateDiff to
calculate the number of days between two dates, or the number of weeks
between today and the end of the year.
  To calculate the number of days between date1 and date2, you can use
either Day of year ("y") or Day ("d"). When interval is Weekday ("w"),
DateDiff returns the number of weeks between the two dates. If date1 falls
on a Monday, DateDiff counts the number of Mondays until date2. It counts
date2 but not date1. If interval is Week ("ww"), however, the DateDiff
function returns the number of calendar weeks between the two dates. It
counts the number of Sundays between date1 and date2. DateDiff counts date2
if it falls on a Sunday; but it doesn't count date1, even if it does fall on
a Sunday.
  If date1 refers to a later point in time than date2, the DateDiff function
returns a negative number.
  The firstdayofweek argument affects calculations that use the "w" and "ww"
interval symbols.
  If date1 or date2 is a date literal, the specified year becomes a
permanent part of that date. However, if date1 or date2 is enclosed in
quotation marks (" ") and you omit the year, the current year is inserted in
your code each time the date1 or date2 expression is evaluated. This makes
it possible to write code that can be used in different years.
  When comparing December 31 to January 1 of the immediately succeeding
year, DateDiff for Year ("yyyy") returns 1 even though only a day has
elapsed.
  The following example uses the DateDiff function to display the number of
days between a given date and today:
Function DiffADate(theDate)
  DiffADate = "Days from today: " & DateDiff("d", Now, theDate)
End Function
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Vlmar Brazăo de Oliveira
Desenvolvimento Web
HI-TEC
"Lynn" <runningwiththewolves@hotmail.com> escreveu na mensagem
news:1d9192b3.0402160903.2037e3f6@posting.google.com...
> On a form I have
>
> Date_Start                      Date_End
>
> I have a new
> Date_Start1                      Date_End1           which the use
> inputs.
>
> I need to validate that Date_Start1 and Date_End1 are a date range
> entirely separate from Date_Start and Date_End i.e. no overlapping
> whatsoever. In effect checking a date interval.
>
> Are there any functions out there already written that can do this? It
> seems to basic to start comparing and contracting dates! Would like to
> do it in Javascript, but happy in vbscript also.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn


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