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Re: DATE ARITHMETIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alejandro munoz del rio)
Wed Feb 8 13:12:42 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 11:43:06 -0600
From: munoz@stat.wisc.edu (alejandro munoz del rio)
To: emily@predict.com
Cc: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
In-Reply-To: <9502072347.AA10151@predict.com> (emily@predict.com)
Emily Dickinson (emily@predict.com) asks:
> Has anyone out there put together a package of date arithmetic
> functions. E.g., functions to add/subtract a day to a given date, get
> tomorrow's date from today's date, determine whehter or not a given
> date is a weekend, etc.?
Section 9.2.1 of the blue book (pp. 268-271) has some of the answers
you're looking for. There's also a contribution called "date" in the S
archive of statlib which may also be useful.
alejandro
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