date calculations

[Charlie Brookhart]

I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference between
two dates and converting it to a number to be used for calculations. The
problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing anything with the dates
that I have selected. I hope that someone here can help me figure out why it
is not working what I have to do to make it work.

This the code I have for the date calculations.

txtNumberOfDays .text = Val(dateTimeChe ckout.Value.Dat e.ToString()) -
Val(dateTimeArr ival.Value.Date .ToString)

[AMDRIT]

try this instead:

txtNumberOfDays .text =
datediff(days,d ateTimeCheckout ,dateTimeArriva l).tostring
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[Charlie Brookhart]

So, if I use EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate), then it would look like this:

txtNumberOfDays = EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate) ? Would that return a whole
number value like 3 days or 5 days?

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I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference
between two dates and converting it to a number to be used for
calculations. The problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing
anything with the dates that I have selected. I hope that someone here
can help me figure out why it is not working what I have to do to make
it work.

This the code I have for the date calculations.

You can also do:
EndDate.Substra ct(StartDate)

It'll return a TimeSpan object which has a variety of caluations (from
total days, total minutes, etc).

[Charlie Brookhart]

This method does not work because dateddiff and days are not declared.

txtNumberOfDays .text =
datediff(days,d ateTimeCheckout ,dateTimeArriva l).tostring
_______________ _______________ ___________

This method does not work because EndDate and StartDate are not declared.

EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate)
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So, if I use EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate), then it would look like this:

txtNumberOfDays = EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate) ? Would that return a whole
number value like 3 days or 5 days?

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"Charlie Brookhart" <ch************ ****@hotmail.co m> wrote in
news:Js******** *************** *******@adelphi a.com:

I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference
between two dates and converting it to a number to be used for
calculations. The problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing
anything with the dates that I have selected. I hope that someone here
can help me figure out why it is not working what I have to do to make
it work.

This the code I have for the date calculations.

You can also do:
EndDate.Substra ct(StartDate)

It'll return a TimeSpan object which has a variety of caluations (from
total days, total minutes, etc).

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Charlie,

There are in VB endless methods to handles dates.
But no methods to calculate with strings as you do.

Your instruction is in fact like this.
txtNumberOfDays .text = Val("Apples" - "Pears")

You can look at the datediff method, but better to the timespan methods.

Be aware that you are comparing with this exact complete days is less than a
million, so you have to decide yourself if a day plus some milliseconds is
one day or two.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sdaystopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor

[Göran Andersson]

Charlie Brookhart wrote:

I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference between
two dates and converting it to a number to be used for calculations. The
problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing anything with the dates
that I have selected. I hope that someone here can help me figure out why it
is not working what I have to do to make it work.

This the code I have for the date calculations.

txtNumberOfDays .text = Val(dateTimeChe ckout.Value.Dat e.ToString()) -
Val(dateTimeArr ival.Value.Date .ToString)

If it's not doing anything with the dates, your code is simply not
executed at all.

It has do be doing something, but I imagine nothing useful. You
shouldn't convert the dates to strings and back to numbers, as the
string representation of a date can not be interpreted as a single number.

You should use the methods of the DateTime class for comparing the
dates. Use the Subtract method and you will get a TimeSpan object, from
which you can get the difference between the dates most any way you
like. For an example:

txtNumberOfDays .text =
dateTimeCheckou t.Value.Date.Su btract(dateTime Arrival.Value.D ate).TotalDays. ToString()

[Chris Dunaway]

Try this:

Dim ts As TimeSpan

ts = EndDate.Subtrac t(StartDate)

txtNumberOfDays .Text = ts.Days

There are other properties of the TimeSpan object as well

[Charlie Brookhart]

Goran:

Thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

Cor:

You say that my instructions are the equivalent of txtNumberOfDays .text =
Val("Apples" - "Pears"). What I don't understand is why doesn't VB see the
instructions I have as a value that I am trying to get, especially when I
start out using Val and then more specifically indicate that I want to get a
date value and subtract that value from another date value?

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Charlie Brookhart wrote:

I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference between two dates and converting it to a number to be used for calculations. The
problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing anything with the dates that I have selected. I hope that someone here can help me figure out why it is not working what I have to do to make it work.

This the code I have for the date calculations.

txtNumberOfDays .text = Val(dateTimeChe ckout.Value.Dat e.ToString()) -
Val(dateTimeArr ival.Value.Date .ToString)

If it's not doing anything with the dates, your code is simply not
executed at all.

It has do be doing something, but I imagine nothing useful. You
shouldn't convert the dates to strings and back to numbers, as the
string representation of a date can not be interpreted as a single number.

You should use the methods of the DateTime class for comparing the
dates. Use the Subtract method and you will get a TimeSpan object, from
which you can get the difference between the dates most any way you
like. For an example:

txtNumberOfDays .text =

dateTimeCheckou t.Value.Date.Su btract(dateTime Arrival.Value.D ate).TotalDays. T
oString()

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Carlie,

The Val method is rarely used.
It returns from a string an undefined value.

ToString is a method that is in any object. And everyhing in VBNet is an
object.

If it is overriden it can return a string of numbers. However from which the
value says not much. .

If you want to calculate with dates, than you have almost forever to use
dates in net. Even when you say
A = Cdate("01-01-2000")-Cdate("12-12-1999") you are calculating with dates.

The basic of your solution by the way is in the message from Chris Dunaway,

I hope this helps,

Cor

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Goran:

Thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

Cor:

You say that my instructions are the equivalent of txtNumberOfDays .text =
Val("Apples" - "Pears"). What I don't understand is why doesn't VB see the
instructions I have as a value that I am trying to get, especially when I
start out using Val and then more specifically indicate that I want to get
a
date value and subtract that value from another date value?

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Charlie Brookhart wrote:

> I am creating a program that involves having to find the difference between > two dates and converting it to a number to be used for calculations.
> The
> problem is that the way it is setup, VB is not doing anything with the dates > that I have selected. I hope that someone here can help me figure out why it > is not working what I have to do to make it work.
>
> This the code I have for the date calculations.
>
> txtNumberOfDays .text = Val(dateTimeChe ckout.Value.Dat e.ToString()) -
> Val(dateTimeArr ival.Value.Date .ToString)
>
>

If it's not doing anything with the dates, your code is simply not
executed at all.

It has do be doing something, but I imagine nothing useful. You
shouldn't convert the dates to strings and back to numbers, as the
string representation of a date can not be interpreted as a single
number.

You should use the methods of the DateTime class for comparing the
dates. Use the Subtract method and you will get a TimeSpan object, from
which you can get the difference between the dates most any way you
like. For an example:

txtNumberOfDays .text =

dateTimeCheckou t.Value.Date.Su btract(dateTime Arrival.Value.D ate).TotalDays. T
oString()