Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. There are a lot of ways to calculate the number of days ...

In addition to being able to recognize the standard dates that you enter into date fields, Microsoft Outlook understands a few date-related phrases you can use instead of standard date values. This ...

Are you eager to know how many days are left to attend your favorite concert? Do you want to know how many days have been passed since your last birthday? If so, then the built-in Windows Calculator ...

How to determine the number of remaining workdays for Microsoft Excel projects Your email has been sent Knowing how many days you’ve allotted to a project is ...

Need to know how many days there are before some important event? Let Linux bash and the date command help with that! With some pretty important holidays right around the corner, you might need to be ...

Keeping data on the number of leap years in a list is important for companies, government offices, and event organizers. If you need to check for the number of leap years between two dates in Excel, ...

In my last article, we began an exploration of date math by validating a given date specified by the user, then explored how GNU date offers some slick math capabilities, but has some inherent ...

Linux marks time in the number of seconds since the start of the Linux epoch. Here's a script for using that information to figure how many days separate two dates expressed in traditional calendar ...

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