ConnectionStartTimeString (System function)

Time of connection start as string (System class)

[Introduced in Sirius Mods 7.8]

The purpose of this method is to help provide service time statistics for web requests.

Syntax

%string = %(System):ConnectionStartTimeString[( [format])] Throws InvalidDateString

Syntax terms

%string	The returned value is the connection start time; it is a string in the format specified by the format argument, if the thread is a TCP/IP server (for example, Janus Web Server) thread, or the null string otherwise.
%(System)	The class name in parentheses denotes a shared method. ConnectionStartTimeString can also be invoked via a System object variable, which may be null.
format	A datetime format string. This is an optional argument; the default format is YYYYMMDDHHMISSXXX.

Usage notes

• The connection time is as of the earliest detection of the connection. For a new connection, this means when the Janus TCP PST sees the first request for a connection.
• To do your own service time calculations, you can do something like:

  %serviceTime = %(system):currentTimeMilliseconds - %(system):connectionStartTimeString

  A satisfactory result is not guaranteed if this code is run on a VTAM 3270 thread.

See also

• ConnectionStartTimeMilliseconds

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