Re: Using dsum across sheets

[Mike Perry <mikepery fscked org>]

Thus spake Andreas J. Guelzow (aguelzow taliesin ca):
> On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 15:35, Mike Perry wrote:

> > I've run into another problem, though. It seems as though there is no
> > Time type that can easily represent large amounts of elapsed time..
> > Something that could do days, hours, minutes would be nice. Or maybe
> > even a way to lift the 0-23 restriction on the hours portion of hh:mm?
>
> [h]:mm should do it

Rats.. As it turns out, for my elapsed times (the "Time Delta" field),
sometimes I subtract a time close to midnight from a time in the early
morning hours. If I use the hh:mm format, it comes out correct (as in
11:03 PM - 2:00 AM == 2:57). But if I use [h]:mm, I get -21:03.

Worse, it seems that regardless of the format, the internal
representation of the time is still the negative form. So if I sum, I
end up getting negative contributions for those periods..

I can't think of a clean way to avoid this.. maybe I'll just have to
hardcode values when it comes out negative..

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
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