Name

days-from-date( ) — converts an XML Schema xs:date into a signed whole number of days

Synopsis

Defined in: XForms 1.0
Parameters: string date (required)
Return type: number

This function computes a number of days relative to an epoch of 1970-01-01, and is most useful when two xs:date values need to be compared.

This example returns -1:

days-from-date("1969-12-31")

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