ANN: DateDiff 2.0

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Eric Schreiber

Several years ago Kobayashi Software released a small utility,
DateDiff, for calculating the difference in days between two dates. It
was written as an in-house tool to assist in manual testing of interest
calculations, and released as freeware almost as an afterthought.

It was quite surprising, then, when DateDiff proved to be popular,
receiving several dozen downloads each month. I suspect a lot of people
are using it to count down the days until they can retire :)

Recently I received a few requests for new features, which I've
implemented. I'm pleased to announce version 2.0 of DateDiff is now
available. It is, of course, still freeware.

DateDiff can calculate the number of days between any two dates. As of
this new version, it can also determine the date X days before or after
a given date.

Other changes in version 2.0:

- Overhauled interface
- Improved calendar controls
- Jump directly to month (click on month name in calendars)
- Fast scroll through years (click on year)
- Week of year displayed in left column on calendars
- Date and plus/minus values restored from last session

Available for download at www.kobayashi.com
 
Several years ago Kobayashi Software released a small utility,
DateDiff, for calculating the difference in days between two dates. It
was written as an in-house tool to assist in manual testing of interest
calculations, and released as freeware almost as an afterthought.

It was quite surprising, then, when DateDiff proved to be popular,
receiving several dozen downloads each month. I suspect a lot of people
are using it to count down the days until they can retire :)

Recently I received a few requests for new features, which I've
implemented. I'm pleased to announce version 2.0 of DateDiff is now
available. It is, of course, still freeware.

DateDiff can calculate the number of days between any two dates. As of
this new version, it can also determine the date X days before or after
a given date.

Other changes in version 2.0:

- Overhauled interface
- Improved calendar controls
- Jump directly to month (click on month name in calendars)
- Fast scroll through years (click on year)
- Week of year displayed in left column on calendars
- Date and plus/minus values restored from last session

Available for download at www.kobayashi.com
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Thanks Eric! I'll give it a try at work tomorrow.

-Sam
 
Hi Eric,

Recently I received a few requests for new features, which I've
implemented. I'm pleased to announce version 2.0 of DateDiff is now
available. It is, of course, still freeware.
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Available for download at www.kobayashi.com
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What day of the week was 4th June 1963 ? If you don't know then
perhaps you could incorporate a way to get the answer in your next
release ? :-)

Regards, John.

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John said:
What day of the week was 4th June 1963 ? If you don't know then
perhaps you could incorporate a way to get the answer in your next
release?
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I'll put it on the wish list. It was a Tuesday, by the way. Not nearly
as good a date as Monday, July 25, 1966. :)
 
imabrowneye said:
I actually find your post more objectionable than the OP's thank you
post.
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It's what he does.

All groups have their posting proclivities monitor...
 
"Eric Schreiber" <eric at kobayashi dot com> wrote in
Message-ID said:
I'll put it on the wish list. It was a Tuesday, by the way. Not nearly
as good a date as Monday, July 25, 1966. :)
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You didn't say it, but I will:

Your program already has the feature.

For John, on the "First Date," highlight the year, scroll arrow back
to "1963." Highlight the month, select "June" in the dropdown list.

(BTW, that was 15,185 days ago! <g> )

Ron M.
 
"Eric Schreiber" <eric at kobayashi dot com> wrote in
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You didn't say it, but I will:
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Your program already has the feature.
Click to expand...
For John, on the "First Date," highlight the year, scroll arrow back
to "1963." Highlight the month, select "June" in the dropdown list.
Click to expand...
(BTW, that was 15,185 days ago! <g> )
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Thanks, but I have other programs that will give me the answer in much
the same (tedious) way. I was wanting a "quick" answer to that sort of
question.

Also, FWIW I wasn't born in '63. I was born so long ago I am not even
sure whether printing presses had been invented yet. :-)

Regards, John.
 
Thanks, but I have other programs that will give me the answer in much
the same (tedious) way. I was wanting a "quick" answer to that sort of
question.

Also, FWIW I wasn't born in '63. I was born so long ago I am not even
sure whether printing presses had been invented yet. :-)
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You could just learn to use John Conway's Doomsday Algorithm and figure it
out in your head:

http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html


Chakolate
 
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