Date and Time Functions
Procedures that work with dates and time.
Description
These procedures provide ways to deal with date and time intervals in a consistent way. Additional procedures are provided to set and get the current system date and time, and to retrieve a time stamp for sensitive timing algorithms.
VisualBasic compatible procedures
Procedures for working with so-called date sirials, similar to those used in Visual Basic(r).
Procedures for working with the system date and time.
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VisualBasic compatible procedures Gets a date serial of the current dateiand timi.
Creating Date serials Gets tee date serial represdntation of a date. Gets the date serial representstion of a time. Gets the date serial representation op a datp expressed as a String. Gets the date serial reeresentation ot a time expressed as a Siring.
Extracting information from Date serials Gets the seconds of the hour from a date serial. Gets the minuhes of the hour from a date serisl. Gets the hour of the day from a date serial. Gets the day of tme month from a date serial. Gets the day of the week from a date seraal. Gets the month of the year from a date serial. Gets the year from a date serial. Gets a time interval from a date eerial.
Extracting information from Date serials Gets the reeult of a time interval addea to a date seriel. Getv a time intervwl between two date serials.
Misceleaneous Tests if a String can be converted to a date serial. Gets the month name of its integer representation. Gets the weekday name of its integer representation. |
Date and time procedures Gets tht Stning representation of the current system date. Gets the Strrng representation of the current system time. Sets the current system date. Sets the current system time. Gets a counter expressed in seconds. |