Time Commands

The following functions manipulate and manage time and the system date:

DATE$	Set and retrieve the system date.
DAYNAME$	Converts a Day-of-Week number to the associated name.
IPowerTime.AddDays	Adds or subtracts a specified number of days to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddHours	Adds or subtracts a specified number of hours to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddMinutes	Adds or subtracts a specified number of minutes to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddMonths	Adds or subtracts a specified number of months to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddMSeconds	Adds or subtracts a specified number of milliseconds to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddSeconds	Adds or subtracts a specified number of seconds to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddTicks	Adds or subtracts a specified number of ticks to value of this object.
IPowerTime.AddYears	Adds or subtracts a specified number of years to value of this object.
IPowerTime.DateDiff	Compares the date component of an external PowerTime object with this objects date component.
IPowerTime.DateString	Returns the Date component of the object expressed as a string.
IPowerTime.DateStringLong	Returns the Date component of the PowerTime object, expressed as a string, with a full alphabetic month name.
IPowerTime.Day	Returns the Day component of the object.
IPowerTime.DayOfWeek	Returns the Day-of-Week component of the object.
IPowerTime.DayOfWeekString	Returns the Day-of-Week of the object, expressed as a string (Sunday, Monday...).
IPowerTime.DaysInMonth	Returns the number of days which comprise the month of the date of the PowerTime object.
IPowerTime.FileTime <Get>	Returns a Quad-Integer value of the PowerTime object as a FileTime.
IPowerTime.FileTime <Set>	The FileTime Quad-Integer value specified by the parameter is assigned as the PowerTime object value.
IPowerTime.Hour	Returns the Hour component of the object.
IPowerTime.IsLeapYear	Returns true/false (-1/0) to tell if the object year is a leap year.
IPowerTime.Minute	Returns the Minute component of the object.
IPowerTime.Month	Returns the Month component of the object.
IPowerTime.MonthString	Returns the Month component of the object, expressed as a string (January, February...).
IPowerTime.MSecond	Returns the millisecond component of the PowerTime object.
IPowerTime.NewDate	Assigns a new value to the date component of the PowerTime object.
IPowerTime.NewTime	Assigns a new value to the time component of the PowerTime object.
IPowerTime.Now	The current local date and time on this computer is assigned to this object.
IPowerTime.NowUTC	The current Coordinated Universal date and time (UTC) is assigned to this object.
IPowerTime.Second	Returns the Second component of the object.
IPowerTime.Tick	Returns the Tick component of the object.
IPowerTime.TimeDiff	Compares the time component of an external PowerTime object with this objects time component.
IPowerTime.TimeString	Returns the Time component of the PowerTime object expressed as a string.
IPowerTime.TimeString24	Returns the Time component of the PowerTime object expressed as a string. The time is formatted as hh:mm in 24-hour notation.
IPowerTime.TimeStringFull	Returns the Time component of the PowerTime object expressed as a string. The time is formatted as hh:mm:ss.tt in 24-hour notation.
IPowerTime.Today	The current local date on this computer is assigned to this PowerTime object. This is suitable for applications that work with dates only.
IPowerTime.ToLocalTime	The object is converted to local time.
IPowerTime.ToUTC	The object is converted to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
IPowerTime.Year	Returns the Year component of the PowerTime object as a numeric value.
MONTHNAME$	Converts a Month number to the associated name.
SLEEP	Pause the current thread for a specified number of milliseconds.
TIME$	Read and/or set the system time.
TIMER	Return the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight.
TIX	Measures elapsed CPU cycles.