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Time (Property)

In french: PartieHeure

Available only with these kinds of connection

The Time property enables you to:

Retrieve the time from a DateTime variable.
Modify the time in a DateTime variable.
Retrieve the time from in a Date item (in "Date and Time" format).
Not available.
Modify the time in a Date item ("Date and Time" format).
Not available.

Reminder: Date items are used to handle:

simple dates: "Year - Month - Day" (YYYYMMDD format)
dates and times: "Year - Month - Day - Hours - Minutes - Seconds - Milliseconds" (YYYYMMDDHHmmSSCCC format)
durations: "Number of days - Number of hours - Number of minutes - Number of seconds - Number of milliseconds" (+DHHMMSSCCC format)

Example

// Operations performed on a DateTime variable
StartDate is DateTime = "200112121515"
EndTime is Time = "1530"
// Change the time
StartDate.Time = "153050"// Modify the Time part
StartDate.Time = EndTime

// Operations performed on a DateTime item
Work.StartDate = "200112121515"
Work.EndTime = "1530"
// Change the time
Work.StartDate.Time = "153050"// Modify the Time part
Work.StartDate.Time = Work.EndTime

Syntax

Finding out the time in a DateTime variable Hide the details

<Result> = <DateTime variable>.Time

<Result>: Character string or time

Time extracted from the DateTime variable.

<DateTime variable>: DateTime

Name of the DateTime variable to be used.

Modifying the time in a DateTime variable Hide the details

<DateTime variable>: DateTime

Name of the DateTime variable to be used.

<New time>: Character string or time or integer

New time that replaces the time of the variable used.
The time format can be:
Integer: Number of hundredths of a second elapsed since midnight ("00:00:00:00")
HHMM
HHMMSS
HHMMSSCC
HHMMSSCCC
(HH: hours, MM: minutes, SS: seconds, CC: hundredths of a second, CCC: thousandths of a second).

Not available in browser code and in PHP

Finding out the time in a Date item (in "Date and Time" format) Hide the details

<Result> = <Data file>.<Item>.Time

<Result>: Character string or time

Time extracted from the DateTime variable.

<Data file>: Character string

Name of the data file used. This name was defined in the data model editor or with the File Description type.

<Item>: Character string

Name of the item used. This name is defined in the data model editor or with the Item Description type.

Not available in browser code and in PHP

Modifying the time in a Date item (in "Date and Time" format) Hide the details

<Data file>: Character string

Name of the data file used. This name was defined in the data model editor or with the File Description type.

<Item>: Character string

Name of the item used. This name was defined in the data model editor or with the Item Description type.

<New time>: Character string or time or integer

New time that replaces the time of the item used. The time format can be:
Integer: Number of hundredths of a second elapsed since midnight ("00:00:00:00")
HHMM
HHMMSS
HHMMSSCC
HHMMSSCCC
(HH: hours, MM: minutes, SS: seconds, CC: hundredths of a second, CCC: thousandths of a second).

Remarks

Date ranges

The "Date" items (in "Date and Time" format) are used to manage the dates found between 01/01/0001 at 00:00 and 12/31/9999 at 23:59.

Related Examples:

Unit examples (WINDEV): Calculations on durations

[ + ] Calculations on dates and times with the WLanguage functions:
- Calculate the duration between two moments (dates and times)
- Calculate a sum of durations
- Calculate an average of durations