Re: how do you compute date difference in emacs?

[David Kastrup]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 16, 1:50 pm, José A. Romero L. <escherdra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 Kwi, 20:23, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:> computing dates.
>>
>> > Recently i needed to compute dates in emacs.
>>
>> > For example, i need to find out:
>> > 2010-04-16 - 215 days.

[...]

> Thanks for both replies. After spending about 10 min on each suggested
> solution, still can't solve it, i end up google for a date calculator
> and and in 10 sec found
> http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html
> and finished doing what i needed for 5 calculations of dates.

You could do

C-x * q <2010-04-16>-215 RET

That's rather simple to use.  You can yank the result using C-y after
that.

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David Kastrup