The elusive @datediff

[Chthoniid]

Ok

Once again something basic seems to be eluding me. I have a data-set of 1300 elephant tusks, and know the date each was used up as a carving.
The date format is dd/mm/yy

I'm trying to work out the days from when it was released to the legal carving factories (ie. how long a tusk lasts before it is depleted).
I've tried the function @datediff(date1, date2, format)

Can't figure out how to convert a date as dd/mm/yy format into a number like 730088.0. I'm sure it's pretty basic, but my searching of the guides hasn't helped.

I'm using Eviews 7 still

Cheers, B

[Chthoniid]

Ok, that's the first basic problem solved.

Change the value display from days.

Now just to work out how to find the numeric value of specific dates.

[EViews Gareth]

@dateval