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


<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateNS function is [[to be entered]].</p>
<p class="warning">Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateNS function.</p>


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


The $Sir_DateNS function has no arguments and returns the number of seconds since 1 January, 1900.
==Syntax==
==Syntax==
<p class="syntax"><section begin="syntax" /> %num = $Sir_DateNS
<p class="syntax"><section begin="syntax" /> %num = $Sir_DateNS
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<p class="caption">$Sir_DateNS Function
<p class="caption">$Sir_DateNS Function
</p>
</p>
where
where
<table class="syntaxTable">
<table class="syntaxTable">
<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 1 Jan 1900 12:00 AM to the current date and time.
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
 
</table>


For example, the following fragment will print the date and time 1 minute from the current time:
For example, 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>


$Sir_DateNS has no error conditions.  
$Sir_DateNS has no error conditions.  
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Notes:
Notes:
<ul>
<ul>
<li>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.  
<li>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.  
<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 $Sir_Date.  
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<li>[[Japanese functions]]</li>
<li>[[Japanese functions]]</li>
<li>[[Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
<li>[[Sir2000 Field Migration Facility]]</li>
 
<li>[[Sir2000 User Language Tools]]</li>
<li>''[[Sir2000 User Language Tools]]''
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="caption">Products authorizing $Sir_DateNS
<p class="caption">Products authorizing $Sir_DateNS
</p>
</p>


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

Revision as of 19:25, 8 February 2011

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

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateNS function.

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

Syntax

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

$Sir_DateNS Function

where

%num set to the number of seconds 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 minute from the current time:

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

$Sir_DateNS has no error conditions.

Notes:

  • 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.

Products authorizing $Sir_DateNS