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  1. #1
    terry6582 is offline Novice
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    Calculating date

    Have a DB with the following fields.



    Reg_Date....The date a attendee registers.
    Adult............the number of days the adult will attendee.
    other............The number of days other will attendee
    early_bird....The number of days the attendee will use early bird.

    I need to calculate the number of days prior to the reg_date the adult, other or early_bird will be attending and subtract from the reg_date.

    reg_date - adult + other+ early_bird. then display the date the attendee is estimated to arrive.

    help please!

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    Bulzie is offline VIP
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    I believe you would use DateAdd. Even though it says Add, you can subtract a number of days or other intervals with the function by using negative numbers in the 2nd argument.

    TotalDaysToSubtract = (Adult + Other + early_bird) * -1

    ArriveDate = DateAdd("d", TotalDaysToSubtract, Reg_Date)

    might all work on same line

    ArriveDate = DateAdd("d", (Adult + Other + early_bird) * -1, Reg_Date)

    Look up Dateadd and DateDiff functions, they are used alot.

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    As dates are really numbers, you can freely add/remove numbers to/from dates. I.e.
    Code:
    ArriveDate = (Reg_Date - Adult + Other + Early_Bird)

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    terry6582 is offline Novice
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    Thatr worked for me

    Thanks

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