Query and date processing

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Need help in coding a query to get difference between 2 dates (Julian format yyddd). Both dates are stored as character. Thanks Larry Swain larry.swain@robins.af.mil

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Query and date processing

Many thanks to Mike for his assistance. larry swain Well, Assuming that the dates are all >2000 you could do the following; JDATE1 '20' || FIELD1 JDATE2 '20' || FIELD2 DYS DAYS(DATE(JDATE2)) - DAYS(DATE(JDATE1)) The first two change the julian dates to 4 digit year so that they're compatible with the query DATE function. Next the DAYS functions are used to convert the actual dates into a number of DAYS value. Then simply subracting one from the other gives the difference. Hope this helps regards Mike Faust