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Subtracting Dates


Skatecrazy1

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Well, I'm creating a sort of task manager, that shows the start date of a task, the end date of a task, the task name, and the duration.  The latter is what I'm having problems with:

I've tried and tried but can't seem to get the difference between the start and end date (in the yyyy-mm-dd mysql format).  has anyone done this sort of thing before?
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if you don't mind using an extra query (its pretty fast anyway) the time/date calculations are best done in mysql - much better/reliable support in mysql than php.

[url=http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html]http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html[/url]
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well, when i run the query SELECT DATEDIFF('2006-11-21','2006-11-24') in phpMyAdmin, it returns 3, but what I need now is to be able to echo that info for each row (in my list of tasks)

I can't figure out how to do it (trust me, I've been trying different things)
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