$Sir DateND: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:50, 8 February 2018

Current date as number of days

Note: Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateND is CurrentTimeDays.

The $Sir_DateND function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.

Syntax

%num = $Sir_DateND

Syntax terms

%num	This numeric variable is set to the number of days from `1 Jan 1900` to the current date.

Usage notes

$Sir_DateND has no error conditions.
Values returned by $Sir_DateND can be represented in a 4-byte BINARY field, if you choose to do so.
To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use $Sir_Date.
To convert the number of days to a readable form, use $Sir_ND2Date.

Example

The following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:

Print $Sir_ND2Date($Sir_DateND + 7, 'Wkday DAY Month YYYY')

Products authorizing $Sir_DateND

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 <span class="pageSubtitle">Current date as number of days</span>
-<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateND is <var>[[CurrentTimeDays (System function)|CurrentTimeDays]]</var>.</p>
+<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateND is <var>[[CurrentTimeDays (System function)|CurrentTimeDays]]</var>.</p>
 The <var>$Sir_DateND</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.
 ==Syntax==
-<p class="syntax"><section begin="syntax" /> %num = $Sir_DateND
+<p class="syntax"><span class="term">%num</span> = <span class="literal">$Sir_DateND</span>
-<section end="syntax" /></p>
-<p class="caption">$Sir_DateND Function
 </p>
-where
+===Syntax terms===
+<table>
-<table class="syntaxTable">
 <tr><th>%num</th>
-<td>set to the number of days from 1 Jan 1900 to the current date.
+<td>This numeric variable is set to the number of days from <code>1 Jan 1900</code> to the current date.
 </td></tr></table>
-For example, the following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:
+==Usage notes==
+<ul>
+<li><var>$Sir_DateND</var> has no error conditions.</li>
-<p class="code"> PRINT $Sir_ND2Date($Sir_DateND + 7, 'Wkday DAY Month YYYY')
+<li>Values returned by <var>$Sir_DateND</var> can be represented in a 4-byte <var>BINARY</var> field, if you choose to do so. </li>
-</p>
-<var>$Sir_DateND</var> has no error conditions.
+<li>To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use <var>$Sir_Date</var>. </li>
-Notes:
+<li>To convert the number of days to a readable form, use <var>$Sir_ND2Date</var>.</li>
-<ul>
-<li>Values returned by <var>$Sir_DateND</var> can be represented in a 4-byte BINARY field, if you choose to do so.
-<li>To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use $Sir_Date.
-<li>To convert the number of days to a readable form, use $Sir_ND2Date.
 </ul>
+==Example==
+The following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:
+<p class="code">Print $Sir_ND2Date($Sir_DateND + 7, 'Wkday DAY Month YYYY')
+</p>
+==Products authorizing {{PAGENAMEE}}==
 <ul class="smallAndTightList">
-<li>[[Sirius functions]]</li>
+<li>[[List of $functions|Sirius functions]]</li>
 <li>[[Fast/Unload User Language Interface]]</li>
-<li>[[Janus Open Client]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:JoclrNew.pdf|Janus Open Client]]</li>
-<li>[[Janus Open Server]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:JosrvrNew.pdf|Janus Open Server]]</li>
 <li>[[Janus Sockets]]</li>
 <li>[[Janus Web Server]]</li>
-<li>[[Japanese functions]]</li>
+<li>Japanese functions</li>
-<li>[[Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
+<li>[[Media:SirfieldNew.pdf|Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
 <li>[[Sir2000 User Language Tools]]</li>
 </ul>
-<p class="caption">Products authorizing $Sir_DateND
-</p>
 [[Category:$Functions|$Sir_DateND]]