# Using date difference for conditional
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-date-difference-for-conditional/67801
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** dates
**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-date-difference-for-conditional/67801 "2021-09-07T10:39:56Z")
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### Author:  [@sransome](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sransome)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-date-difference-for-conditional/67801/1 "2021-09-07T10:39:56Z")
I’m a new Julia user and feeling really dumb here because Dates are absolutely killing me. I just want to do something like
if (Date1-Date2)\>1 # to represent the difference is than 1 day.
do something
else
My problem is that I cant work out how to convert the result of Day1-Day2 to an integer because Date1-Date2 returns “x Days”, clearly not an integer.
Any hints much appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
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### Author:  [@heliosdrm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/heliosdrm)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-date-difference-for-conditional/67801/2 "2021-09-07T10:55:51Z")
> [@sransome](#):
>
> if (Date1-Date2)\>1 # to represent the difference is than 1 day.
You can use:
```julia
if Date1-Date2 > Day(1)
```
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### Author:  [@sransome](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sransome)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-date-difference-for-conditional/67801/3 "2021-09-08T02:48:41Z")
thanks heliosdrm.