https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/29291/subtractHi, i&#39;ll give any date it has to subtract with today and give me number of days difference ex: inputdate -today= no of days difference, 04/07/2023- today = 7 days which functions i can use to achieve this? suggest meen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/122418?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:19:20 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:866ba7cf-7735-4847-9930-cf3e78ead98fStefan Helzle<p>There are no snakes in Appian! And no British comedians!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/122413?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:39:40 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9192b56d-623e-43a4-97a9-8bf86dcf7198margaretr9692<p>@<a href="https://trafficjam3d.com">traffic jam 3d</a>&nbsp;You can use the datedif() function in Python&#39;s datetime module.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/115990?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:51:49 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a647686e-2c61-482c-9412-472515c343e5KM<p>this i have tried already it&#39;s giving return with intervals...i just want only number of days</p> <p></p> <p>abs function will give number of days in return</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/115986?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:19:15 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b69d7168-75b0-4a1d-b47c-a150c3226d1aShanmathi Ponnusamy<p>Or we can use `abs` to&nbsp;not return negative numbers.</p> <p>abs(ri!date1-ri!date2)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/115985?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:15:46 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:59c9db8f-08aa-40f4-b900-b1dfbccb49dcsanchitg0002<p>No need to use a function for this, just use minus(-) operator between the dates.<br /><pre class="ui-code" data-mode="java">tointeger(ri!input - today())</pre></p> <p>Make sure that both the inputs are of Date type.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>