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How to calculate days for past and future days?

DataOrg
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Hello,

I want to calculate the days in difference like below like future days should be in positive and past days should be negative

i tried eval diff=(now()-_time) and did strftime(diff,"%D") but here all are in positive days. i want the past days in negative

Date Difference in Days  
04-02-2022 -5  
05-02-2022 -4  
06-02-2022 -3  
07-02-2022 -2  
08-02-2022 -1  
09-02-2022 0 Today Date
10-02-2022 1  
11-02-2022 2  
12-02-2022 3  
13-02-2022 4  
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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| eval diff=floor((_time-now())/(60*60*24))

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| eval diff=floor((_time-now())/(60*60*24))
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