Beyond the Basics

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Beyond the Basics
Once you get the built-in date-handling functions under your belt, you'll find innumerable other tasks you need to solve involving dates and times. The remainder of this chapter presents a series of solutions to common problem that require stand-alone procedures, grouped by their functionality. The three sections deal with three types of date/time issues:

Finding a specific date

Manipulating dates and times

Working with elapsed time
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