"John Wilson" wrote...
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My only goal was to to try to educate the OP on newsgroup
nettiquette for any subsequent posts that he might make. The
result of which, if he did heed the advice, would be to save
someone in the future from wasting time answering a post that
had already been answered.
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Fine. It was the way you responded that got to me. No direct answer, just a
link to a newposter site. You should have given a link to the DATEDIF page
as well. Just my opinion, FWLIW.

As for wasting people's time, crossposting as opposed to multiposting,
doesn't, at least for those using newsreaders that make intelliegent use of
message IDs.

If you check the .programming ng, you'll notice that Orlando
did, in fact, give the OP the direct link to Chip's "datedif"
page hours before you wasted whatever time it took you to
look it up and post it here.
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Yes, and the reason I DIDN'T see that is because Orlando responded ONLY in
..programming. So who fractured the thread - the OP or Orlando?