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<span class="pageSubtitle">Current date and time as number of seconds</span>
<span class="pageSubtitle">Current date and time as number of seconds</span>


<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateNS is <var>[[CurrentTimeSeconds (System function)|CurrentTimeSeconds]]</var>.</p>
<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateNS is <var>[[CurrentTimeSeconds (System function)|CurrentTimeSeconds]]</var>.</p>


The <var>$Sir_DateNS</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of seconds since 1 January, 1900.
The <var>$Sir_DateNS</var> function has no arguments and returns the number of seconds since 1 January, 1900.
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===Syntax terms===
===Syntax terms===
<table class="syntaxTable">
<table>
<tr><th>%num</th>
<tr><th>%num</th>
<td>set to the number of seconds from 1 Jan 1900 12:00 AM to the current date and time.
<td>Set to the number of seconds from <code>1 Jan 1900 12:00 AM</code> to the current date and time.
</td></tr>
</td></tr>
</table>
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==Usage notes==
==Usage notes==
<ul>
<ul>
<li><var>$Sir_DateNS</var> has no error conditions.  
<li><var>$Sir_DateNS</var> has no error conditions.</li>


<li>Values returned by <var>$Sir_DateNS</var> will exceed the range that can be represented in a 4-byte integer, so you should probably avoid storing the value in a BINARY or FLOAT4 field.  
<li>Values returned by <var>$Sir_DateNS</var> will exceed the range that can be represented in a 4-byte integer, so you should probably avoid storing the value in a <code>BINARY</code> or <code>FLOAT4</code> field. </li>


<li>To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use <var>$Sir_Date</var>.  
<li>To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use <var>$Sir_Date</var>. </li>


<li>To convert the number of seconds to a readable form, use <var>$Sir_NS2Date</var>.
<li>To convert the number of seconds to a readable form, use <var>[[$Sir_NS2Date]]</var>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>


==Example==
==Example==
The following fragment will print the date and time 1 minute from the current time:
The following fragment will print the date and time 1 minute from the current time:
<p class="code">PRINT $Sir_NS2Date($Sir_DateNS + 60, 'MM/DD/YY HH:MI:SS')
<p class="code">Print $Sir_NS2Date($Sir_DateNS + 60, 'MM/DD/YY HH:MI:SS')
</p>
</p>


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<li>Japanese functions</li>
<li>Japanese functions</li>
<li>[[Media:SirfieldNew.pdf|Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
<li>[[Media:SirfieldNew.pdf|Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
<li>[http://m204wiki.rocketsoftware.com/images/d/d6/Ul2krNew.pdf Sir2000 User Language Tools]</li>
<li>[[Sir2000 User Language Tools]]</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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</p>


[[Category:$Functions|$Sir_DateNS]]
[[Category:$Functions|$Sir_DateNS]]

Latest revision as of 22:51, 8 February 2018

Current date and time as number of seconds

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

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

Syntax

%num = $Sir_DateNS

Syntax terms

%num Set to the number of seconds from 1 Jan 1900 12:00 AM to the current date and time.

Usage notes

  • $Sir_DateNS has no error conditions.
  • Values returned by $Sir_DateNS 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 seconds to a readable form, use $Sir_NS2Date.

Example

The following fragment will print the date and time 1 minute from the current time:

Print $Sir_NS2Date($Sir_DateNS + 60, 'MM/DD/YY HH:MI:SS')

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