Metrohm tiamo 1.1 Manual - Manual (Page 80)

52 General program functions
Parameter
Text
The parameter must only contain numerical characters or Variables of the
type
Text as otherwise type conversion is not possible (result = " invalid ").
You can use the following characters as Separators between year, month,
etc.: slash (
/ ), full stop ( . ), minus (-), semicolon ( ; ), colon ( : ), empty space
and comma. You can determine the Sequence of the individual entries
yourself, but these must be entered in the parameter Format .
Format
Defines in which format or sequence the text must be entered. This pa-
rameter must be enclosed with Inverted commas and can be composed
of the following code characters:
Character Meaning
y Year
M Month
d Day
H Hour 0...23
h Stunde AM/PM
m Minute
s Second
a AM/PM marking
Note
If you enter the time in the format
AM/PM then in addition to the formatting char-
acter h you must us the AM/PM marking a (see first example below).
Examples
TextToTime("2004-12-3 5:22:01 PM";"yMdhmsa") = 2004-12-03 17:22:01
UTC+1
(depends on the system time)
TextToTime("12-15-01 2001:3:5";"HmsyMd") = 2001-03-05 12:15:01 UTC+1
(depends on the system time)
TextToTime('CV.TestDate';'CV.TestFormat') = values of the Common vari-
ables in the entered time format
TextToTime('MV.ID1';'CV.TestFormat') = entered text of ID1 in the given time
format
TimeToNumber
Syntax
y = TimeToNumber(Time)
Returns the entered time as Number .
Note
In both the automatic and the explicit conversion of a
Time into the type Num-
ber the number of days since 30 December 1899 at 01 a.m. will be counted.
Note: 30 December 1899 01 a.m. = 0.00000 days, this number is rounded to 5
decimal places; however, e.g. a comparative operation will be carried out with
the exact value.