Date Difference

The Date Difference task allows you find the difference between two date columns.

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Quick Start

Let us start with this data as an example:

Student

Registered

Graduated

Alice

23-April-2012

25-April-2015

Bob

24-April-2011

26-April-2014

Mike

26-April-2010

27-April-2016

The goal is to find the time it took for the students to graduate. Complete the following steps:

  1. Open Data Preparation menu and click on Date Function category

  2. Select Calculate Date Difference option

  3. Choose the Graduated column for option Start date

  4. Choose the Registered column for option End date

  5. Choose Years when choosing the option for Save results as

  6. Enter ‘Years Taken’ in the New column name

  7. Click APPLY

We should end up with something like this:

Student

Registered

Graduated

Years Taken

Alice

23-April-2012

25-April-2015

3

Bob

24-April-2011

26-April-2014

3

Mike

26-April-2010

27-April-2016

6

Supported Options

The following options are supported

  • Start Date: The date column from which to subtract from.

  • End Date: The date column which

  • Save result as: The unit of measure to use when calculating the difference.

Note

  • The outputs produced are always integers.

  • The system will round down when doing date difference. Even if the dates are apart by 1 year, 300 days, the system will simply consider the date difference to be just 1 years.

See also

Result Column

The result column documentation