Countdown days to an event

[ghopkins]

Hi,

Using ME Pro, I would like product a message box showing the number of days between a date in the future and today's system date.

Is this possible in Pro?

If so, can you suggest how to go about it?

Thank you.

[Cory]

Yes. Look at the date/time variables

[ghopkins]

16 minutes ago, Cory said:

Yes. Look at the date/time variables

Hi Cory, thanks. I did just that before I decided to post for some assistance.

[rberq]

The hard part is figuring out which Date/Time commands to use.  This little loop will figure the number of days from now until Christmas of this year.  It repeatedly adds increasing increments to today’s date, until the result equals the target date (Christmas).  When the Repeat loop ends, the number of days is in variable N[1].  The image shows the expanded Data/Time command.  Note the comment line about a never-ending loop. 

 

[Samrae]

You might want to look at the "Date Time Math" macro in the samples.mex macro file.