Question

I have a date in the future e.g. 13/10/2008 I need to subtract the current date (today is the 28/09/2010) minus 7 days, so thats 21/09/2010 minus 13/10/2008, which would equal erm, 720 something ?

But the current date won’t always be 28/09/2010, obviously.

I need the code for this.

EDIT: When i said future I mean past 🙂

Answer 1

Sub Main()
    Dim dt As DateTime = New DateTime(2008, 10, 13)
    ' be careful what you are subtracting from what
    ' the date you have is not in the future (year 2008)
    ' if the date is in the future: (dt.Subtract(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-7))).TotalDays
    ' or simply take the absolute value
    Dim days As Double = (DateTime.Now.AddDays(-7).Subtract(dt)).TotalDays
    Console.WriteLine(days)
End Sub

You will also notice that the TotalDays property is of type Double.