Difference between revisions of "Documentation/How Tos/Calc: DAYS function"

Revision as of 17:53, 29 December 2007

Returns the number of days between two dates

DAYS(enddate; startdate)

startdate and enddate may be dates as numbers or text (which is converted to number form).

DAYS returns enddate - startdate. The result may be negative.

DAYS("3Mar08"; "1Mar08")

returns 2.

DAYS(A1; A2)

where cell A1 contains the date 9Jun08 and A2 contains 2Jun08 returns 7.

Note that DAYS does not count the first day of the period, but NETWORKDAYS does.

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 === Issues: ===
-* The forthcoming ODFF standard requires reversed parameters - ie <tt>'''DAYS(startdate; enddate)'''</tt>; see [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=84884 Issue 84884].
+* Note that <tt>'''DAYS'''</tt> does not count the first day of the period, but   <tt>'''NETWORKDAYS'''</tt> does.
-* <tt>'''DAYS'''</tt> does not count the first day of the period, but   <tt>'''NETWORKDAYS'''</tt> does. This complies with the ODFF standard, but is potentially confusing.