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DaySpan

unit
DateUtils
category
date/time routines
declaration
function DaySpan(const ANow, AThen: TDateTime): double;
description
Gives the number of days (including fractional days) between two specified dates.

Contrary to DaysBetween, DaySpan function does not count only whole days. What this means is that it will NOT return 0 as the result for difference between 05/01/2003 23:59:59 and 05/01/2003 23:59:58 - where the actual difference is one *whole* day minus 1 second.

example
var dtNow, dtBirth : TDateTime;
    fracDaysFromBirth : double;

dtNow := Now;
dtBirth:=EncodeDate(1973, 1, 29);
fracDaysFromBirth := DaySpan(dtNow, dtBirth);

ShowMessage('Zarko Gajic "exists" ' + FloatToStr(fracDaysFromBirth)); 

in real code
see also
EncodeDate, IncMonth, Now, DaysBetween


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