1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03030303xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Timer Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030303.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:39:41">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="timer"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149346"><bookmark_value>Timer function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149346" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030303.xhp" name="Timer Function [Runtime]">Timer Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156023" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns a value that specifies the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3156212" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">You must first declare a variable to call the Timer function and assign it the "Long " data type, otherwise a Date value is returned.</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Timer</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Return value:</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Date</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156442" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Example:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleTimer</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147427" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Dim lSec as long,lMin as long,lHour as long</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">lSec = Timer</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145748" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">MsgBox lSec,0,"Seconds since midnight"</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149260" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">lMin = lSec / 60</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">lSec = lSec Mod 60</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">lHour = lMin / 60</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150418" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">lMin = lMin Mod 60</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156283" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">MsgBox Right("00" & lHour , 2) & ":"& Right("00" & lMin , 2) & ":" & Right("00" & lSec , 2) ,0,"The time is"</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153158" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">end sub</paragraph> 61</body> 62</helpdocument> 63