December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 45m
English
On occasion, the need for date math arises, such as when you're trying to calculate a time interval between events. The calculations seem easy enough because there are precise numbers of seconds, minutes, and hours in a day. It gets tricky, though, when you consider the fact that values have to roll over when, for example, Monday turns into Tuesday or June becomes July.
For instance, calculating the difference in minutes between 6:53 am and 7:04 am is easy enough: you can multiply the hours (6 and 7) by 60 for each value, add the minutes that do not make up the next full hour, then subtract to find the difference. But what if you want the difference in minutes between 11:57 pm and 1:13 am? This calculation ...