How to display the number of days between two dates in view from within razor

Question

I'm trying to show a drop off date for documents but want to calculate this number from within the view instead of the controller. Here's my code:

@foreach (var item in Model.queue_items)
        {
            <tr class="row">
                <td>@Html.Label("", (string)item.report_name)</td>
                <td>@Html.Label("", DateTime.Now.Subtract(item.expires_date).Days.ToString())</td>
                <td>@Html.Label("", (string)item.state)</td>
                <td><a href="@Url.Action("ReportProcessQueue", "Reporting", new { ReportId = item.report_id })" alt="A Link"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-folder-open" id="btnOpen" data-edit-id="OpenDocument" title="@Text.Get(Text.eTextType.Button, "Open")"></span></a></td>
            </tr>
        }

This is giving me the number "1408". Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

Answer 1

my original code is actually correct, I wasn't looking at the date the document was created and it was created 1408 days ago

@foreach (var item in Model.queue_items)
    {
        <tr class="row">
            <td>@Html.Label("", (string)item.report_name)</td>
            <td>@Html.Label("", DateTime.Now.Subtract(item.expires_date).Days.ToString())</td>
            <td>@Html.Label("", (string)item.state)</td>
            <td><a href="@Url.Action("ReportProcessQueue", "Reporting", new { ReportId = item.report_id })" alt="A Link"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-folder-open" id="btnOpen" data-edit-id="OpenDocument" title="@Text.Get(Text.eTextType.Button, "Open")"></span></a></td>
        </tr>
    }

Hope this helps somebody.