$Sir_DateNM

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<section begin="desc" />Current date and time as number of milliseconds<section end="desc" />

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateNM function is to be entered.


The $Sir_DateNM function has no arguments and returns the number of 1/1000th seconds since 1 January, 1900.

Syntax

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

$Sir_DateNM Function

where

%num set to the number of 1/1000th seconds (milliseconds) from 1 Jan 1900 12:00 AM to the current date and time.


For example, the following fragment will print the date and time 1.8 seconds from the current time:

PRINT $Sir_NM2Date($Sir_DateNM + 1800, 'MM/DD/YY HH:MI:SS.XX')


$Sir_DateNM has no error conditions.

Notes:

  • Values returned by $Sir_DateNM will exceed the range that can be represented in a 4-byte integer, so you should probably avoid storing the value in a BINARY or FLOAT4 field.
  • To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use $Sir_Date.
  • To convert the number of milliseconds to a readable form, use $Sir_NM2Date.

Products authorizing $Sir_DateNM