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- {
- Allright... I checked around a lot of DATE and TIME routines, and came up
- with this, taken from about three different routines. This routine works,
- as far as I know, and I've implemented it successfully into my own code.
- If anyone knows that this routine has a bug in it, please let me know.
-
- This procedure uses the Julian calander mathmatical equasions to convert
- two dates and give the # of days inbetween. If anyone knows a faster way
- of writing this procedure, please let me know.
- }
-
- type
- string80=string[80];
-
- var
- _retval:integer;
-
- procedure check_date(stream1,stream2:string80);
- var
- internal1,internal2:longint;
- JNUM:real;
- cd,month,day,year: integer;
- out:string[25];
-
- function Jul( mo, da, yr: integer): real;
- var
- i, j, k, j2, ju: real;
- begin
- i := yr; j := mo; k := da;
- j2 := int( (j - 14)/12 );
- ju := k - 32075 + int(1461 * ( i + 4800 + j2 ) / 4 );
- ju := ju + int( 367 * (j - 2 - j2 * 12) / 12);
- ju := ju - int(3 * int( (i + 4900 + j2) / 100) / 4);
- Jul := ju;
- end;
-
- begin
- out:=copy(stream1,1,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,month,cd);
- out:=copy(stream1,4,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,day,cd);
- out:=copy(stream1,7,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,year,cd);
- jnum:=jul(month,day,year);
- str(jnum:10:0,out);
- val(out,internal1,cd);
- out:=copy(stream2,1,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,month,cd);
- out:=copy(stream2,4,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,day,cd);
- out:=copy(stream2,7,2);
- if copy(out,1,1)='0' then delete(out,1,1);
- val(out,year,cd);
- jnum:=jul(month,day,year);
- str(jnum:10:0,out);
- val(out,internal2,cd);
- _retval:=internal1-internal2;
- end;
-
- begin
- check_date('01-01-95','01-01-94');
- writeln('The # of days inbetween is = ',_retval);
- end.