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RE: limits of the generic

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@y...>,"Jeni Tennison" <jeni@j...>
• Subject: RE: limits of the generic
• From: "Keith W. Boone" <keith@w...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:21:48 -0400
• Cc: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,<uche.ogbuji@f...>,"Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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Dare Obasanjo asks:
> However I am have been curious about something; is
> there any programming environment that currently
> supports being able to add 4 years, 3 months, 2 days,
> 7 hours, 15 minutes and 12 seconds to September 28th,
> 2002 at 1:36:07PM ?

VB and VBScript Allow for it using the DateAdd function.

d = "9/28/2002 1:36:07 PM"
d = DateAdd("s", 12, DateAdd("n", 15, DateAdd("h", 7, DateAdd("d", 2,
DateAdd("m", 3, DateAdd("yyyy", 4, d))))))

SQL has a similar function named: DATEADD

And John Cowan wants to know:
> Ah, but what is 2004-02-29 plus a year and a day?

According to the previous language:
2005-03-01 (interestingly enough producing the same results regardless of
the order of operations)

Granted, your results might vary depending upon the order you perform the
addition.


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