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<span class="pageSubtitle">Current date as number of days</span>
<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>$Sir_DateND</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.
The <var>$Sir_DateND</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.


==Syntax==
==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>
</p>


where
===Syntax terms===
 
<table>
<table class="syntaxTable">
<tr><th>%num</th>
<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>
</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>
</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>
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[[Category:$Functions|$Sir_DateND]]
[[Category:$Functions|$Sir_DateND]]

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')

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