[Lazarus] DateDif function needed

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Tue Nov 12 21:01:26 CET 2013


On 11/11/2013 6:54 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 10:46 AM, John Landmesser wrote:
>> Fazit:
>>
>> You can't write a DateDif function with the functions in DateUtils.pas ?!!
>
> actually, you can but it is more brute-force for the results that you and i are
> looking for... brute-force as in actually looping thru each unit and
> incrementing a counter for that part to fill a record of some sort which is then
> used to show the desired counts... i'm working on one as we speak ;)

it is amazing what refinements and streamlining will come up with at times... 
originally this was totally brute force... then i started refining and cleaning 
it up until i came up with this... it also includes a set of a set of dates for 
testing...


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program DateDiff3;

uses
   SysUtils,DateUtils,StrUtils;

type
   Date_Diff = record
                 Years,
                 Months,
                 Days: Word;
               end;

function CalendarDateDiff(Date1,Date2: TDateTime): Date_Diff;
var
   theDiffRec: Date_Diff;
   Cmp: Integer;
   loDate,hiDate: TDateTime;
   loYear,hiYear,loMonth,hiMonth,loDay,hiDay: Word;
begin
   FillChar(theDiffRec,SizeOf(theDiffRec),0);  // init results to zero
   Cmp:=CompareDateTime(Date1,Date2);          // compare dates
   If Cmp<0 then
   begin
     loDate:= Date1;                           // and set loDate to oldest
     hiDate:= Date2;
   end
   else if Cmp>0 then
   begin
     loDate:= Date2;                           // and set loDate to oldest
     hiDate:= Date1;
   end;
   DecodeDate(loDate,loYear,loMonth,loDay);
   DecodeDate(hiDate,hiYear,hiMonth,hiDay);
   theDiffRec.Years:= hiYear - loYear;
   if (loMonth > hiMonth) or ((loMonth = hiMonth) and (loDay > hiDay)) then
   begin
     theDiffRec.Years:= theDiffRec.Years - 1;
   end;
   if loMonth > hiMonth then
   begin
     hiMonth:= hiMonth + 12;
   end;
   theDiffRec.Months:= hiMonth - loMonth;
   if hiDay >= loDay then
   begin
     theDiffRec.Days:= hiDay - loDay
   end
   else
   begin
     if theDiffRec.Months = 0 then
     begin
       theDiffRec.Months:= 11;
     end
     else
     begin
       theDiffRec.Months:= theDiffRec.Months - 1;
     end;
     theDiffRec.Days:= DaysInAMonth(hiYear,loMonth) - loDay + hiDay;
   end;
   Result:= theDiffRec;
end;

procedure Test(D1,D2: TDateTime);
var
   DateDiffRec: Date_Diff;
begin
   FillChar(DateDiffRec,SizeOf(DateDiffRec),0);
   DateDiffRec:= CalendarDateDiff(D1,D2);
   writeln(PadLeft(IntToStr(DateDiffRec.Years),4)+' yrs 
'+PadLeft(IntToStr(DateDiffRec.Months),4)+' mos 
'+PadLeft(IntToStr(DateDiffRec.Days),4)+' days');
end;

type
   DateRecord = record
                  Year,
                  Month,
                  Day: Word;
                end;
const
   TstDates1: array[1..26] of DateRecord = (
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:12;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:08;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:12;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:12;Day:31)
                                           );
   TstDates2: Array[1..26] of DateRecord = (
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:01;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2000;Month:12;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:08;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2001;Month:12;Day:31),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:01;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:01;Day:02),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:28),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:02;Day:29),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:03;Day:01),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:03;Day:15),
                                            (Year:2004;Month:12;Day:31)
                                           );
var
   DCnt1,DCnt2: Integer;
   DT1,DT2: TDateTime;
   DStr1,DStr2: String;
begin
   writeln('TstDates1 has ',Length(TstDates1),' records');
   writeln('TstDates2 has ',Length(TstDates2),' records');
   for DCnt1:= 1 to Length(TstDates1) do
   begin
     if 
IsValidDate(TstDates1[DCnt1].Year,TstDates1[DCnt1].Month,TstDates1[DCnt1].Day) then
     begin
       DT1:= 
EncodeDate(TstDates1[DCnt1].Year,TstDates1[DCnt1].Month,TstDates1[DCnt1].Day);
       DStr1:= FormatDateTime('YYYY-MM-DD',DT1);
       for DCnt2:= 1 to Length(TstDates2) do
       begin
         if 
IsValidDate(TstDates2[DCnt2].Year,TstDates2[DCnt2].Month,TstDates2[DCnt2].Day) then
         begin
           DT2:= 
EncodeDate(TstDates2[DCnt2].Year,TstDates2[DCnt2].Month,TstDates2[DCnt2].Day);
           DStr2:= FormatDateTime('YYYY-MM-DD',DT2);
           write(DStr1+' to '+DStr2+' is ');
           Test(DT1,DT2);                      // do the test
         end
         else
         begin
           writeln(DStr1+' to 
'+PadLeft(IntToStr(TstDates2[DCnt2].Year),4)+'-'+AddChar('0',IntToStr(TstDates2[DCnt2].Month),2)+'-'+AddChar('0',IntToStr(TstDates2[DCnt2].Day),2)+' 
invalid ending date');
         end;
       end;
     end
     else
     begin
 
writeln(PadLeft(IntToStr(TstDates1[DCnt1].Year),4)+'-'+AddChar('0',IntToStr(TstDates1[DCnt1].Month),2)+'-'+AddChar('0',IntToStr(TstDates1[DCnt1].Day),2)+' 
is an invalid starting date');
     end;
     writeln;
   end;
end.
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