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Date and Time Functions

Liberty BASIC provides several ways to retrieve date and time information. Date$() and Time$() are functions that return values that can be used in mathematical operations. See also Date$ and Time$

Date$()

'This form of date$() produces this format

print date$() ' Nov 30, 1999

print date$("mm/dd/yyyy") ' 11/30/1999

print date$("mm/dd/yy") ' 11/30/99

print date$("yyyy/mm/dd") ' 1999/11/30 for sorting

print date$("days") ' 36127 days since Jan 1, 1901

print date$("4/1/2002") ' 36980 days since Jan 1, 1901 for given date

print date$(36980) ' 04/01/2002 mm/dd/yyyy string returned

' when given days since Jan 1, 1901

Date$() Math

Here is a small program that demonstrates one way that Date$() can be used with math operators.

today = date$("days")

target = date$("1/1/2004") 'subsititute value for next year

print "Days until the new year: ";

print target - today

Time$()

'this form of time$() produces this format

print time$() 'time now as string "16:21:44"

print time$("seconds") 'seconds since midnight as number 32314

print time$("milliseconds") 'milliseconds since midnight as number 33221342

print time$("ms") 'milliseconds since midnight as number 33221342

Time$() Math

Here is a small program that demonstrates one way that Time$() can be used with math operators.

'get start time

startTime = time$("ms")

'do some computations

for i = 1 to 40000

x = x + i

'get end time

endTime=time$("ms")

print "Computations took ";

print endTime-startTime; " milliseconds"

end