date with multiplicity

The <date with multiplicity> inspectors deal with arrays of dates, allowing you to extract unique dates and count them.

Parent: date

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Mac, Red Hat, SUSE, Session, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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unique value of <date> : date with multiplicity

Returns the unique values and counts of a list of dates, removing duplicates and sorting by value.

Q: unique values of (march 11 of 1984; march 11 of 1984; january 27 of 1970; august 18 of 2042)
A: Tue, 27 Jan 1970
A: Sun, 11 Mar 1984
A: Mon, 18 Aug 2042

Plural: unique values

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Mac, Red Hat, SUSE, Session, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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Sorts the list and returns the multiplicity, or count, of each unique element in the specified list of multiple <date> types.

Plural: multiplicities

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Mac, Red Hat, SUSE, Session, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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