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doug jenkins

I am using V14 and am trying to calculate the duration.   I am using the following formula but it keeps returning a value of 0


for record in self:

    dateDueString = str(record.x_studio_pickup)

    dateMonthString = str(record.x_studio_invoice_date)

    try:

      dateDue = datetime.datetime.strptime( dateDueString, '%Y-%m-%d' )

      dateMonth = datetime.datetime.strptime( dateDueString, '%Y-%m-%d' )

      timeDifference = dateMonth-dateDue

      record['x_studio_duration'] = timeDifference.days

    except:

      record['x_studio_duration']=100000



Can someone tell me the error in my formula? 

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Jack Dane
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Hello Doug,

You are using the same "dateDueString" variable in both "dateDue" and "dateMonth". So you are using the same date to compare with which is why you are getting 0 as an output. 

If you change your code to:

      dateDue = datetime.datetime.strptime( dateDueString, '%Y-%m-%d' )

      dateMonth = datetime.datetime.strptime( dateMonthString, '%Y-%m-%d' )

It should work.

I hope this helps,

Thanks, 

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