Date:	22 Mar 1997 05:33:00 +0100
From:	sanasi AT deco DOT franken DOT de (Alessandro Sanasi)
Newsgroups:	alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.sb.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
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Subject:	Re: Help with comparing dates
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On 21 Mar 97, jamiei AT potato DOT wa DOT gov DOT au (Jamie Ingram) wrote:

> :-) I have been working with dates for a while and can never get a function
> :-) to compare accurately 100% of the time.  Any help appreciated.

> Why not reorganise the date so that it is YY/MM/DD? Then do a string
> compare. The string compare will return an error level which you can
> use to determine if the date falls between the other two. See below.

How about simply changing the whole date into seconds (like 86400 seconds  
for a day, or 31536000 seconds for each year), and then just compare the  
numbers?

Bye


Alessandro
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