XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 has a wide range of functions for date arithmetic
and formatting. 

If you need an XSLT 1.0 solution you might look at the date/time
libraries in EXSLT (www.exslt.org)

Michael Kay

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> Sent: 18 November 2003 18:03
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> Subject:  Finding total hours between two dates and 
> keeping a running total
> 
> 
> I currently have XML like this portion:
> 
> <ArrayOfReservation>
> 	<Reservation>
> 		<StartDate>2003-11-13T09:00:00.0000000-05:00</StartDate>
>     		<EndDate>2003-11-13T17:00:00.0000000-05:00</EndDate>
> 	</Reservation>
> 	<Reservation>
> 		...
> 		...
> 	</Reservation>
> 		...
> 		...
> 		...
> </ArrayOfReservation>
> 
> How can I:
> 
> 1. Display 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM instead of 09:00 and 17:00
> 
> 2. Get the total number of hours between the two times( problems arise
> for 	me when I have multi day events). 
> 
> 3. Display the total number of hours for all 
> reservations(this is most important, and I am completely 
> stumped on this one.  I imagine it has something to do with a 
> variable, but I am a novice and keep getting variable scope errors).
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> 
> -Kenny Akridge
> 
> 
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