DTime Function

DTime - Calculating with times

With the functions with DTime and DTimef can be used to calculate times or time differences in RedCrab

The function DTime returns an integer representing a given time. The time is passed as an argument in a list in the following format [year, month, day, hour, minute, second].

As a interger number, the times can be added or subtracted. The calculated sum is then converted back into a date and time format with DTimef .

Determine current time

Calling DTime with the argument 0 returns the value for the current date and time

Parameters in RedCrab

The argument is a data field whose 6 cells contain the values in the order given above

Valid values of the arguments

• 1 <= year <= 9999
• 1 <= month <= 12
• 1 <= day <= 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 depending on the month
• 0 <= hour <= 23
• 0 <= minute <= 59
• 0 <= second <= 59

Syntax

DTime (List)

Example

d = DTime ([Y,M,D,h,m,s]) = 490136170778241