Calculating number of days

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Hie...

Can Someone please tell me which function I use to calculate the number of
days that have elapsed since registering a patient for a supplementary
feeding programme.

will this work because i seem to hv errors?

(today() - date_of_discharge )+ 1

Eva

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Hi Eva,

When you're doing calculations with dates, you actually have to 'cast' the
arguments so they're read as dates, instead of the funny-looking numbers CC
saves in the back end. I think that

date(today()) - date(date_of_discharge)

should give you what you want. Also check out some help here:
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Hidden+Values+Tutorial+Part+2%3A+Calculations+Using+a+Date

Good luck!

Best
Jordan

··· On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Eva wrote:

Hie...

Can Someone please tell me which function I use to calculate the number of
days that have elapsed since registering a patient for a supplementary
feeding programme.

will this work because i seem to hv errors?

(today() - date_of_discharge )+ 1

Eva

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Thanks Jordan..let me try that out

··· On Thursday, September 21, 2017, Jordan Levinson wrote:

Hi Eva,

When you're doing calculations with dates, you actually have to 'cast' the
arguments so they're read as dates, instead of the funny-looking numbers CC
saves in the back end. I think that

date(today()) - date(date_of_discharge)

should give you what you want. Also check out some help here:
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Hidden+Values+
Tutorial+Part+2%3A+Calculations+Using+a+Date

Good luck!

Best
Jordan

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Eva <eva.tsitsi@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eva.tsitsi@gmail.com');>> wrote:

Hie...

Can Someone please tell me which function I use to calculate the number
of days that have elapsed since registering a patient for a
supplementary feeding programme.

will this work because i seem to hv errors?

(today() - date_of_discharge )+ 1

Eva

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