Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: how to subtract very large integers in tcl

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3: Re: how to subtract very large integers in tcl (response to 1)
Posted by russ m on 07/06/04 06:46 AM
are these actually plain integers, or are they datestamps? if they're datestamps then doing integer subtraction won't give you meaningful results... for example, 

 20040101120000 (noon on Jan 1, 2004)
-20031231120000 (noon on Dec 31, 2003)
=    8870000000 (88 months and 70 days)

you need to treat them as dates if that's what they are...