$Sir DateND: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:59, 19 July 2013

Current date as number of days

Note: Most Sirius $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.

%num = $Sir_DateND

where

%num	set to the number of days from 1 Jan 1900 to the current date.

For example, the following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:

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

$Sir_DateND has no error conditions.

Notes:

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.

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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>Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateND is <var>[[CurrentTimeDays (System function)|CurrentTimeDays]]</var>.</p>
 The <var>$Sir_DateND</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.