Date Difference Calculation problem

I am creating a form which should calculate the number of days between two calender dat
es using the Date2Sum expression but my result cell gives me
zeo despite setting the locale and the calculation correcttly. Where could
my problem be?
Darlington Sakwa

Validate the date patterns on the date fields match the date patterns used in Date2Num. For example, the attached has a start date with the display date pattern date{YYYY-MM-DD} and that matches the date pattern in my Date2Num function call.
// form1.page1.startDateNum::calculate - (FormCalc, client)
if (form1.page1.startDate.isNull) then
$.rawValue = ""
else
$.rawValue = Date2Num(form1.page1.startDate.rawValue,"YYYY-MM-DD")
endif
Steve

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hey people, i've got the below method, i'm trying to calculate the difference between two dates. the calculation is wrong as it is outputing the wrong duration... can anyone help?
public int getDuration(Date startDate,Date endDate)
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start.setTime(startDate);
GregorianCalendar end = new GregorianCalendar();
start.setTime(endDate);
long diff = 0L;
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In the mean time, a couple of stylisitc suggestions:
if(start.getTime().before(end.getTime()) == true)
// == true is redundant and cluttersome
if(start.getTime().before(end.getTime()))
Long L = new Long(diff);
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So, I am currently facing a situation where I need to calculate the total hours a workstation is in use for each day in a particular time period. I have a table with the log of each time each workstation is used. The problem is, a workstation can be used for any amount of time, starting on any day and ending on any day. This means that a particular entry in the log can span multiple days. I'm not sure how to split the difference between the end date/time of an entry and the start date/time of the entry over multiple days.
Here's a sample table and some sample data for what I'm trying to do:
-- Note: in reality, this table contains more columns
CREATE TABLE     my_hrs
(     record_id     NUMBER     NOT NULL
,     sdatetime     DATE
,     edatetime     DATE
,     workstation     VARCHAR2(4)
     CONSTRAINT my_hrs_pk PRIMARY KEY (record_id)
-- Note: sdatetime, edatetime, and workstation CAN all be NULL, though I won't provide
-- any sample data for these situations since I want to ignore them in my results
-- Additionally, there are hundreds of workstations, but I'm only using 2 to simplify the sample data
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (12345,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 08:00','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/01/2010 13:35','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'123A');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (13427,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 08:10','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/01/2010 10:02','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'321B');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (21543,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 14:07','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/01/2010 16:30','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'123A');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (22412,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 10:15','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/01/2010 15:30','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'321B');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (11976,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 17:00','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/02/2010 02:30','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'123A');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
VALUES (34215,TO_DATE('03/01/2010 22:10','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),TO_DATE('03/02/2010 04:30','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI'),'321B');
INSERT INTO     my_hrs
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INSERT INTO     my_hrs
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WORKSTATION     DATE          HRS_IN_USE
123A          3/1/2010     14.96667
321B          3/1/2010     8.95000
123A          3/2/2010     13.50000
321B          3/2/2010     7.00000
123A          3/3/2010     24.00000
321B          3/3/2010     24.00000
123A          3/4/2010     24.00000
321B          3/4/2010     10.50000
123A          3/5/2010     2.50000
321B          3/5/2010     0.00000Is this possible? (Please note, if the workstation was not used on a particular day, I want it to show 0 hours for that workstation for that day). Another thing to note is that I'm working with Oracle 8i.
Thanks in advance for the help!

Thanks, Frank, your explanation helped. My main problem was just that I couldn't picture what that line of the query was doing, even working from the inside out. I learn better through visual and hands-on methods, so to really understand, I had to look at the cross-join of a and h and go line by line. (In case there's anybody who looks at this post in the future and learns like I do, I've posted that data below).
This definitely solves my problem!
>
By the way, this query is full of things that could be done better in later versions of Oracle. Generating table a is just one of them. Starting in Oracle 9, you can do a CONNECT BY query on dual to generate exacly how many rows you need. You never have to worry about an upper bound, and it's much faster than using ROWNUM. From time to time you might gently remind the people who decide these things that you're using a very old, unsupported version of Oracle, and that everyone could be more productive if you upgraded.
>
I could go on and on on this topic.... we have tried and continue to try to convince the powers that be to pay for the upgrades... if it were just Oracle that needed to be upgraded, we might actually have a chance at succeeding. As it is, ...ha.
TABLE A (FROM SUB-QUERY)
a_date          next_date
3/1/2010     3/2/2010
3/2/2010     3/3/2010
3/3/2010     3/4/2010
3/4/2010     3/5/2010
3/5/2010     3/6/2010
TABLE H (MY_HRS)
record_id     sdatetime     edatetime     workstation
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B
CROSS-JOIN TABLE A WITH TABLE H                                             (and calculations done by the query below)
record_id     sdatetime     edatetime     workstation     a_date          next_date     LEAST (h.edatetime, a.next_date)     GREATEST (h.sdatetime, a.a_date)     GREATEST(TO_NUMBER(L-G),0)
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/1/2010 5:30                    3/1/2010 0:00                    0.229166667
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/1/2010 5:30                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.00000
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/1/2010 5:30                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/1/2010 5:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
10000          2/28/2010 18:00     3/1/2010 5:30     123A          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/1/2010 5:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/1/2010 13:35                    3/1/2010 8:00                    0.23264
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/1/2010 13:35                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.00000
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/1/2010 13:35                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/1/2010 13:35                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
12345          3/1/2010 8:00     3/1/2010 13:35     123A          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/1/2010 13:35                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/1/2010 10:02                    3/1/2010 8:10                    0.07778
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/1/2010 10:02                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.00000
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/1/2010 10:02                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/1/2010 10:02                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
13427          3/1/2010 8:10     3/1/2010 10:02     321B          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/1/2010 10:02                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/1/2010 16:30                    3/1/2010 14:07                    0.09931
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/1/2010 16:30                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.00000
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/1/2010 16:30                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/1/2010 16:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
21543          3/1/2010 14:07     3/1/2010 16:30     123A          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/1/2010 16:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/1/2010 15:30                    3/1/2010 10:15                    0.21875
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/1/2010 15:30                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.00000
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/1/2010 15:30                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/1/2010 15:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
22412          3/1/2010 10:15     3/1/2010 15:30     321B          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/1/2010 15:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/2/2010 0:00                    3/1/2010 17:00                    0.29167
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/2/2010 2:30                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.10417
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/2/2010 2:30                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/2/2010 2:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
11976          3/1/2010 17:00     3/2/2010 2:30     123A          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/2/2010 2:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/2/2010 0:00                    3/1/2010 22:10                    0.07639
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/2/2010 4:30                    3/2/2010 0:00                    0.18750
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/2/2010 4:30                    3/3/2010 0:00                    0.00000
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/2/2010 4:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.00000
34215          3/1/2010 22:10     3/2/2010 4:30     321B          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/2/2010 4:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/2/2010 0:00                    3/2/2010 13:00                    0.00000
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/3/2010 0:00                    3/2/2010 13:00                    0.45833
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/4/2010 0:00                    3/3/2010 0:00                    1.00000
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/5/2010 0:00                    3/4/2010 0:00                    1.00000
24789          3/2/2010 13:00     3/5/2010 2:30     123A          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/5/2010 2:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.10417
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B          3/1/2010     3/2/2010     3/2/2010 0:00                    3/2/2010 21:30                    0.00000
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B          3/2/2010     3/3/2010     3/3/2010 0:00                    3/2/2010 21:30                    0.10417
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B          3/3/2010     3/4/2010     3/4/2010 0:00                    3/3/2010 0:00                    1.00000
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B          3/4/2010     3/5/2010     3/4/2010 10:30                    3/4/2010 0:00                    0.43750
31542          3/2/2010 21:30     3/4/2010 10:30     321B          3/5/2010     3/6/2010     3/4/2010 10:30                    3/5/2010 0:00                    0.00000
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Hi Kumar,
We have developed simar reports in our previous projects.
You need to follow the following steps.
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2. Create another restricted key figure globally on Past Due $15. Restriction details I will let you know in the ensuing steps.
3. Create a Z varuable on Calday and offset it -1 (use the button next to exclude button).
4.Create another Z varuable on Calday and offset it -10 (use the button next to exclude button).
5. Create another Z varuable on Calday and offset it -11 (use the button next to exclude button).
6. Create another Z varuable on Calday and offset it -30(use the button next to exclude button).
7 Restrict the RKF past due 100$ (defined in sl 1)between the variable range defined in 3 and 4.
8. Restrict the RKF past due 15$ (defined in sl 2) between the variable range defined in 5 and 6
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Columns:
C1 :1 u2013 10 days Past Due $100.00
C2 :11 u2013 30 days Past Due $15.00
If the above info serves your purpose, please reward me with the point.
Regards,
Subha

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Hi,
I have a form with a date field and one text field which is hidden..in case the date field value is less than the current date minus 3 years then the text field should display else not. Please advice what logic/code can be used.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated !!
Thanks
Kapil

In the mean time, a couple of stylisitc suggestions:
if(start.getTime().before(end.getTime()) == true)
// == true is redundant and cluttersome
if(start.getTime().before(end.getTime()))
Long L = new Long(diff);
return L.intValue();I'd suggest returning a long, rather than an int. If you insist on returning an int, because you're sure that the number of days will never be more than Integer.MAX_VALUE, then add an assertion that its not.
assert diff <= Integer.MAX_VALUE : diff + " too big";The Long is overkill. If you do have a small enough value, just do return (int)diff;

Xcelsius doesn't display the date difference in Preview

Hi,
Im using the Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 and I use XML connectivity for the source. I would like to do some date difference calculation on my spread sheet. But the result of the date difference does no appear on the Preview for some reason. My XML file has got the date format dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm. I tried to convert the date to number format by multiplying the date by 1. When I do this the result appears correctly as I want on the Preview, but the problem is when there is a first refresh, the date difference shows a error value "#Value". I tried to enable XML Map Properties -> When refreshing or importing data:
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2. Append new data to existing XML lists.
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Many thanks in advance.
Priya

Hi Priya
Can you please tell me what formula are you using to take difference in dates?
Just to tell you as a point of information, Xcelsius is capable to handle very limited set of formulas. In spreadsheet you will see the formula working perfectly fine but right after hitting preview button you wont be able to see values calculated by certain formulas in Excel. So, its always good to use less and very basic formulas.
Regards,
Waqas

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In creating the formula for conditional date difference calculation,
i.e.,
if (sto date is 0) then (act date - mat rel date) else (sto date is not equal to 0) then (sto date - mat rel date)
So I tried with,
(sto date == 0) * (act date - mat rel date) + (sto date <> 0) * (sto date - mat rel date)
But I am getting a wrong value even with decimals as days can't be in decimals. Please suggest where I am going wrong in calculation.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
Darshan MS

Hi Darshan,
First of all, were the dates converted already to keyfigure?
If not, please check:
Convert a Characteristic into a Key Figure (BEx)
If they were already converted, try this:
(sto date == 0) * (act date - mat rel date) + (sto date - mat rel date)
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Hi,
I am calculating the date difference with the Formula variables.
My requirement is to find the rocords, where date difference is 0.
, Means same date.
But I am facing one problem while testing the query.
If for the two date , if both the columns are not having any value,
it contains # , and if I calculate the diffence of this,
This is also coming as 0 in the Date difference column.
Can somebody let me know how to rectify/avoid this situation?
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Hi Jeetu,
According to your requirement, if record is there, there should be at leaset one date value say "Starting Date".
If "ending date" value is blank, the formula returns a junk/garbage value.
If both the date values are available, the formula returns the number of days corectly.
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We are using MII 12.0.6
I am looking at a very peculiar behavior while calcualting the date difference between 2 dates.
For ex. the following expression:
(datediffminutes(datetoxmlformat("2010-3-21 14:06:30 ", "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"), datetoxmlformat("2010-05-24 08:14:54","yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss")))/60
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I have tested this with a few more dates going as far back as Dec 2009 yielding the same one hour difference.
On the other hand for any start date in May 2010 yields a correct result even when called from an Xacute query.
I tested this in a 12.0.2 system and found this behavior absent as in all was working as expected.
Has anyone come accross this before?Do you know if the latest patch has this fixed?
Just to cross check can anyone giive this a try in their 12.0.6 or higher system and report back?
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Kind Regards
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Hi Udayan,
Please open a ticket. It sounds like a bug, although a few years back there was a problem with one of the java packages and Daylight Savings Time. If you search this forum for all time, you will find some of the postings.
Since there have been changes to when Daylight Savings Time start and ends, it is likely related and could possibly be java related instead of MII. I doubt it, but it is possible.
Edit:
A little more research turned up differences in how Daylight Savings Time is calculated in different countries/continents. Coincidentally, the US started on March 14th this year while the European Union started on March 28th (this date sounds familiar). Not sure what timezone, you are in, but you may want to play around with the timezone settings for your computer to see if the error is consistent with US vs European timezones (or wherever you happen to be located).
[Daylight Savings Times around the world|http://www.worldtimezone.org/]
Thanks,
Mike
Edited by: Michael Appleby on May 25, 2010 12:41 PM

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Hello Guys, how are you.
I'm facing a problem whan I try to get the difference between the max and min date of a KF.
Mi requirement is like this:
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My query result is like this:
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It seems like the formula for getting the difference between the other 2 formulas is not working, because I'm using the function of aggregattion, based on some characteristic, in order to have the max value of the date in one formula, and then have the min value of the date in other formula (the KF store for date is the same, that's the reason i have to use aggregation in order to calculate min and max value).
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Hi Carmonia,
(a) If you want to perform calculations on DATE and if both dates are characteristic infobjects, then you can go for Formula Replacement Path.
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   2. Now create a Variable for one of the Characteristic of Date type with processing type Formula - Replacement path. Select Replace with 'Key' and Dimension as 'Date'. Similarly create another formula replacement variable for another characteristic.
   3. Now you can taken both these variables in calculations(such as A-B).
(b) If you are using key figure for the dates, then try by using DATE function in Data Functions of New Formula.
Example: DATE(kfig_MaxDate)-DATE(kfig_MinDate). Also try DATE(kfig1_MaxDate-kfig2_MaxDate).
***Assign points if useful.
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When we are creating via VL10D , delivery date is getting the additional 30 days from MaxDlvCrteDate . With initial investigation i see that VL10D has delivery creation profile 0101 for which no of days maintained in max delv creation date is 30 .
I assume that the delivery date is getting the additional days from delivery creation profile felid no of max delv creation date .
I have created the delivery on 24.03.2011, as per the route no of TL time is 9 days , So Ideally the delivery date should be 04.04.2011 , however system has calculated it as 23.04.2011
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Dear gurus,
I am new to COPA and going on a COPA project.
Here is one question that I have been searching answer for.
At the month end reconciliation of FI COPA data, there could be a situtaion where the SD delivery takes place this month but the billing for the same happens next month. under this circumstance,
1. how would a busness like to see the data?
2. Is there a way to reconcile the data where there is such date difference to get the correct report?
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This is often a problem and causes FI/COPA to be out of synch....
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To avoid this situation, you have 2 options....Both are tried and tested approaches
1. Use Exit RV60AFZB and write ABAP code saying that billing month cant be different than PGI month... This approach can be used if you are not bound by the legal restrictions I said above
2. Another approach is to use accrual keys in your SD pricing procedure.. (Ask your SD guy to do this)
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Customer .................................. Dr
Revenue ....................................Cr
COGS ..........................................Dr
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