How Do You Find the Difference Between Two Dates in Unix?
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How do you find the difference between two timestamps in Unix?

In general though, you’ll calculate differences between dates by counting the seconds between them. So your method should be to figure out the unix epoch second for each of your dates, subtract to find the difference, and then print the results in whatever format suits you.

How do you find the difference between two dates?

Just subtract one date from the other. For example if cell A2 has an invoice date in it of 1/1/2015 and cell B2 has a date paid of 1/30/2015, then you could enter use the formula =B2-A2 to get the number of days between the two dates, or 29.

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