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This value can be used to calculate the difference between times.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">TimeValue (Text As String)</paragraph> 41*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153969" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Date</paragraph> 43*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 44*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that contains the time that you want to calculate in the format "HH:MM:SS".</paragraph> 45*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152578" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Use the TimeValue function to convert any time into a single value, so that you can calculate time differences.</paragraph> 46*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3163710" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 47*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151117" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 48*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147426" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err13"/> 52*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 53*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152597" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleTimerValue</paragraph> 54*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147348" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim daDT as Date</paragraph> 55*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim a1, b1, c1, a2, b2, c2 as String</paragraph> 56*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149378" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">a1 = "start time"</paragraph> 57*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145800" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">b1 = "end time"</paragraph> 58*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">c1 = "total time"</paragraph> 59*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154492" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">a2 = "8:34"</paragraph> 60*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155602" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">b2 = "18:12"</paragraph> 61*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">daDT = TimeValue(b2) - TimeValue(a2)</paragraph> 62*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153838" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">c2 = a1 & ": " & a2 & chr(13)</paragraph> 63*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">c2 = c2 & b1 & ": " & b2 & chr(13)</paragraph> 64*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154755" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">c2 = c2 & c1 & ": " & trim(Str(Hour(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Minute(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Second(daDT)))</paragraph> 65*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153714" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Msgbox c2</paragraph> 66*da39209eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 69