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Hello,
I want to add 100 years for the TimeStamp. How to do it? Thought of adding days, but is there any other way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
Naidu Buddha

Sure, you can 'add days' as long as you don't care about leap years: 100 years in days is just + (100 * 365).

You'd have to get more sophiticated to handle this properly. From what I recall, Ken Bland has routines to do this on his website and may have posted them here as well. Ray Wurlod has Server date routines on his site as well. Both can be found via links in any of their posts, I do believe.

If your source is a database, you can use the database functions to generate this column.

Eg: In Oracle

select add_months(sysdate,12) from dual;

will add 12 months to current date.

bmnaidu wrote:Hello,
I want to add 100 years for the TimeStamp. How to do it? Thought of adding days, but is there any other way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
Naidu Buddha

Probably the most simplistic approach is

(DSJobStartTimestamp[1,4]+100):DSJobStartTimestamp[15]

replace DSJobStartTimestamp with whatever your timestamp is
2007-12-03 14:16:52 becomes 2107-12-03 14:16:52

True. It really boils down to exactly what you mean by a 'year'.

Don't forget February 29th.

There is a set of date arithmetic functions downloadable from here which includes AddYearsToTimestamp() function.