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Subtracting Dates

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I hope this is the right forum! Im using Oracle Discoverer (ver 9) and have 2 date fields im trying to subtract from weach other to give the time difference. Does anybofy have any idea on how to do this??
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By subtracting two dates you get the result that shows the number of days between the dates. You will need to recalculate this number to get the desired time. For example, to get the number of hours, you need to divide the difference by 24, and so on.
 
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