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SecondsBetween

Calculate the number of whole seconds between two DateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 262

function SecondsBetween(

  const ANow: TDateTime;

  const AThen: TDateTime

):Int64;

Arguments

ANow

  

First moment in time

AThen

  

Second moment in time

Function result

Number of seconds between ANow and AThen

Description

SecondsBetween returns the number of whole seconds between ANow and AThen. This means the fractional part of a second (milliseconds etc.) is dropped.

See also

YearsBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole years between two DateTime values

MonthsBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole months between two DateTime values

WeeksBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole weeks between two DateTime values

DaysBetween

  

Number of whole days between two DateTime values.

HoursBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole hours between two DateTime values.

MinutesBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole minutes between two DateTime values.

MilliSecondsBetween

  

Calculate the number of whole milliseconds between two DateTime values.

Example

Program Example61;

{ This program demonstrates the SecondsBetween function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

begin
 Write('Number of seconds between ');
 Write(TimeToStr(AThen),' and ',TimeToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',SecondsBetween(ANow,AThen));
end;

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Now;
  D2:=D1-(999*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(1001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5.4*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2.5*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
End.

Documentation generated on: Nov 16 2015