1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 14*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 16*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * under the License. 22*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 23*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski ***********************************************************--> 24*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 25*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 26*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<helpdocument version="1.0"> 27*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<meta> 28*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<topic id="textsbasicshared03030000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 29*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Date and Time Functions</title> 30*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030000.xhp</filename> 31*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</topic> 32*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<history> 33*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 34*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<lastedited date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 35*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</history> 36*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</meta> 37*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<body> 38*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 39*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 40*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <section id="datumzeit"> 41*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph id="hd_id3150502" role="heading" level="1" oldref="1" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030000.xhp" name="Date and Time Functions">Date and Time Functions</link></paragraph> 42*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153255" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="2">Use the statements and functions described here to perform date and time calculations.</paragraph> 43*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </section> 44*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph l10n="U" role="paragraph" id="par_id3152363" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="3"><item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Basic lets you calculate time or date differences by converting the time and date values to continuous numeric values. After the difference is calculated, special functions are used to reconvert the values to the standard time or date formats.</paragraph> 45*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" role="tip" id="par_id3151054" l10n="U" oldref="4">You can combine date and time values into a single floating-decimal number. Dates are converted to integers, and times to decimal values. <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Basic also supports the variable type Date, which can contain a time specification consisting of both a date and time.</paragraph> 46*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03030100.xhp#datumswerte"/> 47*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03030200.xhp#uhrzeiten"/> 48*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03030300.xhp#ermitteln"/> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </body> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 51