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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: How to Calculate duration time in Table ?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:49:49 -0400
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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