Shell Programming and Scripting

We're not worried about grammar errors in English if the message is clear., but there is confusion on how we know the length of a month. Could you show us what input & output you would expect and how you are hoping to generate your decimal that you wish to add.We could help you write something that is not what you need, so more explanation with examples of what you expect the answer to be is better.

It's a bit like asking a child "What is 3+4x5=" They may answer 23 or 35. You need to be clear what you actually want and I'm sure we can work on something.


Thanks,
Robin

Some users have services (there are several different costs) and for example Thomas have bought "D3" service for 6 months. After some time he want to improve it to "D4". So now we're calculating his service virtual value (we know when he bought it and when it's ending), we have that there are left 0,5462 value of his paid virtual money. For example at beginning he paid 100 Eur, so there is 54.62 Eur left. "D4" for one month costs 25 Eur. We get: 54,62 / 25 = 2,1848 months. So now we need to add this time 2,1848 months (in minutes accuracy) to current date/time, (but it must consider, that each month has different number of days) and then we will get exact date that "D4" service will expire. Best way to get how many minutes it need to add to current time to get that expiration date. It can be done with php, bash or smth taht would work in linux.

How I can see there is no simple wat to get that.
So, to improve the proccess I can pay for this job by paypal. Please, help me and I will donate for you or forum.
It would be better get the code in php language, but also it can be done in any other language which works in linux.

Thank you for any help

Payment to speed up a response or escalate? Not for me. I'm just confused.

If you have a date, as you suggest and and you need to add 2.1848 months, can you show us what answer you want for a spread of months with various lengths, e.g.I/we need to know what your business rules are, then we can approach the issue. It would be dangerous for us to assume we know what your customer contracts state.



Robin

Are you sure you know what you/your business is talking about? Usually, a day is a good basic unit for licence payments, which you can count; I can't see the need to calculate to the split second. To make your customer happy, give him the fraction of a day that might be in question.

Agreed, "decimal fraction of a month" makes absolutely no sense no matter how you cut it.

We are not being mean. We are not denying you anything. We are not "holding out on you" for pay or anything else. The concept of "decimal fraction of a month" is incoherent and flawed.

Talk with them about it and get them to redefine it in days, or at least a fixed number of days.

Payment to the person who will finish the script (I need only to get exact expiration date). For example, if there is 2,1848 months, I need to get exact minutes count (2,1848 * 30 * 24 * 60) - 94383 minutes (but don't forget that each month has different number of days). Then mysql in our script will add that minutes ant will get exact expiration date of the service.

Yes, we can count that one month has 30 days, but if customer will buy for example for longer period of time he can loose several days. Also if there would be february with 28 days he will get +2 days for nothing. If they would change service a lot of time, this inaccuracy can become to weeks and etc. So we want to get exact date (if it's possible) depent on calendar