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This value can be used to calculate the difference between times.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">TimeValue (Text As String)</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153969" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Date</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that contains the time that you want to calculate in the format "HH:MM:SS".</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Use the TimeValue function to convert any time into a single value, so that you can calculate time differences.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3163710" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">This TimeValue function returns the type Variant with VarType 7 (Date), and stores this value internally as a double-precision number between 0 and 0.9999999999.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151117" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">As opposed to the DateSerial or the DateValue function, where serial date values result in days relative to a fixed date, you can calculate with the values that are returned by the TimeValue function, but you cannot evaluate them.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147426" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">In the TimeSerial function, you can pass individual parameters (hour, minute, second) as separate numeric expressions. For the TimeValue function, however, you can pass a string as a parameter containing the time.</paragraph> 56<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 57<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err13"/> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152597" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">Sub ExampleTimerValue</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147348" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">Dim daDT as Date</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Dim a1, b1, c1, a2, b2, c2 as String</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149378" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">a1 = "start time"</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145800" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">b1 = "end time"</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">c1 = "total time"</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154492" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">a2 = "8:34"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155602" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">b2 = "18:12"</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="39">daDT = TimeValue(b2) - TimeValue(a2)</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153838" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="40">c2 = a1 & ": " & a2 & chr(13)</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">c2 = c2 & b1 & ": " & b2 & chr(13)</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154755" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="42">c2 = c2 & c1 & ": " & trim(Str(Hour(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Minute(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Second(daDT)))</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153714" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="43">Msgbox c2</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="44">end sub</paragraph> 74</body> 75</helpdocument> 76