9.11 Time object

Description

You can query the current date/time of the computer with the Time object.

List of methods/properties

Name	Type	Short description
Weekday	Property	The current weekday
Day	Property	The current day of the month
Month	Property	The current month
Year	Property	The current year
Hour	Property	The current hour
Minute	Property	The current minute
Second	Property	The current second
Millisecond	Property	The current millisecond
Tick	Property	A continuous counter in milliseconds

Weekday

Description

This property returns the current weekday. Sunday is the first day of the week (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, 3 = Wednesday, 4 = Thursday, 5 = Friday, 6 = Saturday).

Syntax

Time.Weekday

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Weekday

At the end v[1] whould be the current weekday (e. g. on a tuesday v[1] whould be 2).

Day

Description

This property returns the current day of the month.

Syntax

Time.Day

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Day

At the end v[1] whould be the current day of the month (e. g. at the 08. January 1987 this whould be 8).

Month

Description

This property returns the current month. (1 = January, 2 = February, 3 = March, 4 = April, 5 = May, 6 = June, 7 = July, 8 = August, 9 = September, 10 = October, 11 = November, 12 = December)

Syntax

Time.Month

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Month

At the end v[1] whould be the current month (e. g. at the 08. January 1987 this whould be 1).

Year

Description

This property returns the current year.

Syntax

Time.Year

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Year

At the end v[1] whould be the current year (e. g. at the 08. January 1987 this whould be 1987).

Hour

Description

This property returns the current hour.

Syntax

Time.Hour

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Hour

At the end v[1] whould be the current hour (e. g. at 12:30 this whould be 12).

Minute

Description

This property returns the current minute.

Syntax

Time.Minute

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Minute

At the end v[1] whould be the current minute (e. g. at 12:30 this whould be 30).

Second

Description

This property returns the current second.

Syntax

Time.Second

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Second

At the end v[1] whould be the current second.

Millisecond

Description

This property returns the current millisecond.

Syntax

Time.Millisecond

Data type

Word

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Millisecond

At the end v[1] whould be the current millisecond.

This counter counts every millisecond up by one. The value of this property is equivalent to the Windows function GetTickCount. This property can be used to measure time differences. You simply save the value before and after an action. The difference is the required time for that action in milliseconds.

Syntax

Time.Tick

Data type

Dword

Type

Property, read-only

Example

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$
v[1] = Time.Tick

At the end v[1] whould be the current tick of the computer.