1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03030303xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Timer Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030303.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:39:41">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="timer"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149346"><bookmark_value>Timer function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<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> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Timer</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Return value:</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Date</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156442" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Example:</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleTimer</paragraph> 56<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> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">lSec = Timer</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145748" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">MsgBox lSec,0,"Seconds since midnight"</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149260" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">lMin = lSec / 60</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">lSec = lSec Mod 60</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">lHour = lMin / 60</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150418" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">lMin = lMin Mod 60</paragraph> 63<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> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153158" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">end sub</paragraph> 65</body> 66</helpdocument> 67