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I am looking for a simple either object or widget. I would like something that i could use to keep track of how many days have gone by in a given period of time. Such as if I were to reset it today, tomorrow it would read one day, and then the next day 2 days, ect. But i do need to be able to reset it. Does anybody know of one that is out there, or how to create one like that?
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I dont now if there are such obiects/widgets, I saw some that were counting backwards. But you can make one for your own, its very simple, first you must store somewhere the date from when you want to count the days for example in .txt file or windows registry. Then simply create object with timer so it will refresh every minute, hour, etc. or eny time you want. and to display number of days just import the starting date from where you stored it and use this:

number_of_days = DATE-(CDATE(date_when_started))

the date must be in format YYYY-MM-DD
so if today is 19.02.2005 and I would have started hmm. lets say 20.01.2005 it would look like this:

date_when_started = "2005-01-20"
number_of_days = DATE-(CDATE(date_when_started))

the number_of_days would be 30

function DATE returns the current date and function CDATE() converts a string to date type, you must use this when you save the starting date as a string.

I hope I made it clear
if you want some help with storing/importing date just say.
Good luck with makeing this obiect