Vb.DateDiff (gb.vb)
Static Function DateDiff ( period As String, Date1 As Date, Date2 As Date ) As Integer
Returns the number of periods between two dates. A negative number will mean that date2 is bigger than date1.
Period is a string expression that is the interval to be returned.
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Period
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Description
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yyyy
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Year
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q
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Quarter
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m
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Month
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y
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Day of year
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d
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Day
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w
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Week day - Note: A week day is Monday to Friday in Gambas. This is different to VB in which w = d
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ww
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Week
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h
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Hour
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n
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Minute
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s
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Second
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Date1 and
Date2 are the two dates or literals representing dates from which the difference is calculated.
Date1 is subtracted from
Date2 (which is currently the opposite to VB! :-).