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Old 09-12-2013
Date difference in Sun OS 5.10
Hi,

I need to find the difference between 2 dates in SunOS 5.10
input will be in(yyyymmdd)
Code:
 
date1: 20131011
date2:20131012

my output shold be diff between two dates i.e 0,1,2,3 date2 is always greater than date1.
if it handles even leap year then it wil be more helpful.

thank u guys
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Old 09-12-2013
Perderabo's datecalc might help. Please find it here.
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Old 09-12-2013
And if you want more reading:
https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
 
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