Date/Time calculation for events in the future

[mstjohn]

Do you have a PAC in the mix? If so, you might find this post useful:

Calculate elapsed time (or countdown to future time)

Hi All, Recently had a request for some sample code to: calculate the duration time between two date/times, for example, time between: March 3, 2013 11:50 and March 4, 2013 10:45. That didn’t sound too hard, but ended up taking me longer than I thought. I wonder if others might have a more elegant solution than mine. The method I used involved: calculating each date/time in terms of seconds since 0, subtracting one from the other, then building the result in human-readable form (leverag…