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Date Difference Excluding weekends

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:07:51 GMT

Greetings All,

I have to calculate date difference between two dates but I have to exclude

"saturday" and "sunday".

For example: '2012-09-14' - '2012-09-07' = 7

but it should give me 5 as it is included saturday and sunday.

Please advise how to achieve it.

Many Thanks!

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:15:40 GMT

Hi,

Use the function NetWorkDays(), that returns the number of monday to friday excluding saturdays and sundays from the dates speficied, including both:

=NetWorkDays('07/09/2012', '14/09/2012')

Hope that helps.

Miguel

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

gerry_hdm — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:15:58 GMT

hello you can use

networdays(from,to,holidays)

networkdays ( '2007-02-19', '2007-03-01' ) is 9

networkdays ( '2006-12-18', '2006-12-31', '2006-12-18', '2006-12-18' ) is 8

holidays be passed as string

gruß gerry

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:24:43 GMT

Thanks!

=NetWorkDays('2012-09-07', '2012-09-14')

It is giving me 6 days it should be 5 days.

It is only excluding sunday I guess.

Please advise.

Thanks.

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:37:36 GMT

Hi,

It returns 6 because, as I mentioned above, it counts both dates specfied as parameters so the calculation is as follows:

2012-09-07 (Friday) = 1 +

2012-09-14 (Friday) = 5

Therefore the total 6 days, including both dates and excluding 2012-09-08 (Saturday) and 2012-09-09 (Sunday).

Hope that helps.

Miguel

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

whiteline — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:43:05 GMT

Hi.

You can always take a paper calendar, marker and see that it's not so hard to write such expression.

Keep in mind that QV has useful functions div() and mod().

In this case you can count any number of days in a week.

Re: Date Difference Excluding weekends

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:47:04 GMT

Thanks all!