Problem 720. Find number of days

Created by Reza Ahmadzadeh

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The input is two date in string format (dd-mm-yyyy), Find out the number of days between these two dates. 
Example: 
input: '15-jan-2000' '24-may-2012'
(if today is 24-may-2012)
output: 4509

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Richard Zapor on 25 May 2012

Answers are wrong. They ignore leap days. There are four from 15-Jan-2000 thru May 2012. function datenum provides correct answer

Bart Vandewoestyne on 25 May 2012

I agree with Richard. I also think that the first two out of the three test cases are wrong.

Aurelien Queffurust on 25 May 2012

I also agree with the above comments

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 25 May 2012

as do i

Ned Gulley on 25 May 2012

I went ahead and updated the test.

vaibhav hosur on 20 Aug 2015

daysact(x1,x2) not working

Szász Botond on 19 Apr 2021

Is there a mistake in the problem or the site?
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?y1=1000&m1=1&d1=15&y2=2012&m2=5&d2=24

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