1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4 5<!-- 6 *********************************************************************** 7 * 8 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 9 * 10 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11 * 12 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 13 * 14 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 15 * 16 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 17 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 18 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 19 * 20 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 23 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 24 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 25 * 26 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 27 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 28 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30 * 31 ************************************************************************ 32 --> 33 34 35 <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36<meta> 37<topic id="textscalc01func_daysxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DAYS </title> 39<filename>/text/scalc/01/func_days.xhp</filename> 40</topic> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3151328"><bookmark_value>DAYS function</bookmark_value> 44</bookmark> 45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/SC_HID_FUNC_TAGE" id="bm_id3148893" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151328" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="116"><variable id="days"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_days.xhp">DAYS</link> 46</variable></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155139" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="117"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_TAGE">Calculates the difference between two date values.</ahelp> The result returns the number of days between the two days.</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155184" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="118">Syntax</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="119">DAYS(Date2; Date1)</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151376" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="120"> 51<emph>Date1</emph> is the start date, <emph>Date2</emph> is the end date. If <emph>Date2</emph> is an earlier date than <emph>Date1</emph> the result is a negative number.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151001" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="121">Examples</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159101" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="123">=DAYS("2010-01-01"; NOW()) returns the number of days from today until January 1, 2010.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3163720" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="172">=DAYS("1990-10-10";"1980-10-10") returns 3652 days.</paragraph> 55</body> 56</helpdocument> 57