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