# Fun with Dates

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684>\
**Category:** Project Showcase\
**Created:** [January 24, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684 "2021-01-24T20:25:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684/92 "2021-02-18T15:37:59Z")

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> [@Jeff\_Hager](#):
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> There is some stuff somewhere on here regarding ordinal dates, which might work for doing this. Unless I think of something simpler.

Guilty as charged 🙂

> [@Find the last day of the following month](https://community.glideapps.com/t/find-the-last-day-of-the-following-month/21557/24):
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> @Jeff_Hager how would you calculate the [Ordinal Date](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date) using Glide math? (I know I could do it with my usual brute force approach, but…)

@Robert_Petitto I think that ordinal date formula will work for your use case, yeah? Just convert all your dates to ordinals, then you can do a direct numerical comparison.

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