Working with dates

hello,
I am working with dates. It looks like so:
1st I want to calculate a time span for example calculate cell A2 - cell A1. In cell A1 it is written 01.01.2010 (so first of January) and in cell A2 01.02.2010 (so first of February). I wrote the dates in letters, too, to avoid misunderstandings due to different national date formats.
Since January has 31 days, the obvious result thereof is "31D". So far so good.
but now I want to multiply the 31 with a numeric value, but not the 31D, because if I do so, and let's say the numeric value is 3, then my result is 93 DAYS rather than just 93.
So my question is, is there any possibility how I can further calculate with a result coming from date calculations without having the new result also in the date format? Anything that escapes the "DAYS" in further calculations??
Thx

mac-a-rooney wrote:
I am working with dates.
1st I want to calculate a time span for example calculate cell A2 - cell A1. In cell A1 it is written 01.01.2010 (so first of January) and in cell A2 01.02.2010 (so first of February). I wrote the dates in letters, too, to avoid misunderstandings due to different national date formats.
Since January has 31 days, the obvious result thereof is "31D". So far so good.
but now I want to multiply the 31 with a numeric value, but not the 31D, because if I do so, and let's say the numeric value is 3, then my result is 93 DAYS rather than just 93.
Are you sure you're asking in the right forum?
Using Numbers '08, with the following entries:
B2: Jan 1, 2010
C2: Feb 1,2010
D2: =C2-B2
E2: =3*D2
I get 31 (not 31D) in D2 and 93 (not 93 DAYS) in D2.
From your description, I think you're actually using Numbers '09, and Jerry's advice above applies.
Regards,
Barry

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