Date and Time Functions
Procedures that work with dates and time.
Description
These procedures provide ways to deal with date and time intervals in a consistent way. Additional procedures are provided to set and get the current system date and time, and to retrieve a time stamp for sensitive timing algorithms.
VisualBasic compatible proceduresProcedures for working with so-called date serials, similar to those used in Visual Basic(r).
Date and time proceduresProcedures for working with the system date and time.
| VisualBasic compatible procedures Now Creating Date serials DateSerial Extracting information from Date serialsGets the date serial representation of a date. TimeSerialGets the date serial representation of a time. DateValueTimeValue Second Extracting information from Date serialsGets the seconds of the hour from a date serial. MinuteGets the minutes of the hour from a date serial. HourGets the hour of the day from a date serial. DayGets the day of the month from a date serial. WeekdayGets the day of the week from a date serial. MonthGets the month of the year from a date serial. YearGets the year from a date serial. DatePartMiscellaneous IsDate MonthName Gets the month name of its integer representation. WeekdayNameGets the weekday name of its integer representation. | Date and time procedures |