How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Xin Shi]

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Hello,

I have a table in org which stores the date, I'm wondering if there is any
function to calculate the duration? For example:

| Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
|------------+------------+----------|
| 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |          |

I tried to use B&-C&, but failed ...

Thanks!

Xin

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Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Nick Dokos]

Xin Shi <shixin111@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a table in org which stores the date, I'm wondering if there is any
> function to calculate the duration? For example:
> 
> | Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
> |------------+------------+----------|
> | 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |          |
> 
> I tried to use B&-C&, but failed ...
> 

Try the following:

| Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
|------------+------------+----------|
| 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |      335 |
#+TBLFM: $3=(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>))


See this thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7741

as well as this post (which is really a followup on the
above):

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7753

The problem that this last article pointed out was solved
in

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/8001

and Chris Randle's original musings are at

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/6536/

HTH,
Nick

Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Bastien]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Try the following:
>
> | Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
> |------------+------------+----------|
> | 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |      335 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>))

Nice, I added a note in Worg/org-hacks.org.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Nick Dokos]

Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> > Try the following:
> >
> > | Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
> > |------------+------------+----------|
> > | 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |      335 |
> > #+TBLFM: $3=(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>))
> 
> Nice, I added a note in Worg/org-hacks.org.
> 

Thanks for doing that. The only problem is that the TBLFM line has been
stripped, so it's not clear *what* the solution is, unless one follows
the link to the message. Would it work better if I had quoted the above
(e.g. boxquote or the gnus message method)?

Thanks,
Nick

Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Bastien]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Try the following:
>> >
>> > | Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
>> > |------------+------------+----------|
>> > | 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |      335 |
>> > #+TBLFM: $3=(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>))
>> 
>> Nice, I added a note in Worg/org-hacks.org.
>> 
>
> Thanks for doing that. The only problem is that the TBLFM line has been
> stripped, so it's not clear *what* the solution is, unless one follows
> the link to the message. 

Opps, fixed!  Thanks for checking.

> Would it work better if I had quoted the above (e.g. boxquote or the
> gnus message method)?

No no, I just need more sleep :)

-- 
 Bastien

Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?

[Xin Shi]

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Cool! thanks for all :)

Xin


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>
> > Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Try the following:
> >> >
> >> > | Start Date |   End Date | Duration |
> >> > |------------+------------+----------|
> >> > | 2004.08.07 | 2005.07.08 |      335 |
> >> > #+TBLFM: $3=(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>))
> >>
> >> Nice, I added a note in Worg/org-hacks.org.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for doing that. The only problem is that the TBLFM line has been
> > stripped, so it's not clear *what* the solution is, unless one follows
> > the link to the message.
>
> Opps, fixed!  Thanks for checking.
>
> > Would it work better if I had quoted the above (e.g. boxquote or the
> > gnus message method)?
>
> No no, I just need more sleep :)
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
>
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