$Sir DateND: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:28, 19 October 2012

Current date as number of days

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.

<section begin="syntax" /> %num = $Sir_DateND <section end="syntax" />

$Sir_DateND Function

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.

Products authorizing $Sir_DateND

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 <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 $Sir_Date.
+<li>To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use <var>$Sir_Date</var>.
-<li>To convert the number of days to a readable form, use $Sir_ND2Date.
+<li>To convert the number of days to a readable form, use <var>$Sir_ND2Date</var>.
 </ul>