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Find difference in days between today and another date

yvassilyeva
Path Finder

Hi,

I have a creation_date field that has date format 2019-06-21 10:18:00 and then i created a field for today's date  | eval nowstring=now() that has the format 1623929734. Now I am trying to find the different between to dates in days. Your advice is appreciated, thank you.

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rrovers
Contributor

something like this:

| makeresults
| eval date=strptime("2019-06-21 10:18:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| eval nowstring=now()
| eval verschil=(nowstring-date)/86400

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rrovers
Contributor

something like this:

| makeresults
| eval date=strptime("2019-06-21 10:18:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| eval nowstring=now()
| eval verschil=(nowstring-date)/86400

yvassilyeva
Path Finder

Awesome, thank you. I forgot the last line.

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