Problem 720. Find number of days

Created by Reza Ahmadzadeh

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The input is two date in string format (dd-mm-yyyy)

find out the number of days between these two dates. Example:

input: '15-jan-2000' '24-may-2012'

(if today is 24-may-2012)

output: 4509

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Richard Zapor on 25 May 2012

Answers are wrong. They ignore leap days. There are four from 15-Jan-2000 thru May 2012. function datenum provides correct answer

Bart Vandewoestyne on 25 May 2012

I agree with Richard. I also think that the first two out of the three test cases are wrong.

Aurelien Queffurust on 25 May 2012

I also agree with the above comments

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 25 May 2012

as do i

Ned Gulley on 25 May 2012

I went ahead and updated the test.

vaibhav hosur on 20 Aug 2015

daysact(x1,x2) not working

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Harish Maradana on 25 Aug 2014

function ans = countDays(x1,x2)
daysdif(x1, x2);
end
this working my system but test suit fails
help me

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