On 5/22/06 9:59 AM  Duane L. Mitchell  [log in to unmask]  said:

> On 5/19/06 10:14 PM  John Baxter  [log in to unmask]  said:
> 
>> Did the script travel to the client with the problem as a compiled
>> script containing the reference date?
> 
> Early on I had them recompile the script on their machine. I was certain
> that would solve it and was surprised when it didn't.

My curiosity got to me and I visited the site yesterday. Sometimes there's
no substitute for being there and this was the case. Though they claimed to
have re-compiled the scripts they couldn't have because this was the first
thing I did to resolve the issue and it did solve the problem.

Before doing that I ran the script which resulted in a negative number. Thus
pointing to "current date" as the problem in this expression:

((current date) - pReferenceDate)

I was hoping it would be more interesting than this. I had all the various
solution scripts to try and did not get the chance to run them. I suppose
the question remains how can one create the above expression on a PPC
machine so that it works on an Intel machine without having to recompile.
Perhaps using one or another of the previously suggested solutions for both
sides of the minus sign would work?

Thanks for the contributions. I learned a bit about dates and date math and
that makes things worthwhile.

-Duane Mitchell