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- Time and Date Page 1
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- Time and Date Functions
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- If you are writing an application which needs to find out the current time or
- date, you can call certain system routines to find out those values (provided
- the user has set them using the control panel!). The first routine allows you
- to retrieve the current date:
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- Get date.
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- FUNCTION t_getdate : Integer ;
- GEMDOS( $2a ) ;
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- Use this call to retrieve the system date, in the following format:
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- bits contents
- ----- --------
- 0- 4 the day of the month (1-31)
- 5- 8 the month of the year (1-12)
- 9-15 the number of years since 1980 (0-119)
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- For example, the date February 5, 1986 would be:
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- $0C45 = 6*512 + 2*32 + 5
- (0000 1100 0100 0101 in binary)
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- Set date.
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- FUNCTION t_setdate( date : Integer ) : Integer ;
- GEMDOS( $2b ) ;
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- This call is used to set the date, in the same format given for t_getdate,
- above. It returns 0, if the date was valid, or a negative error number,
- otherwise.
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- Get time.
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- Of course, the date alone is not enough. You also need to set and get the
- current system time. This time value is only accurate to an even number of
- seconds, however, since there are only 5 bits allocated for returning the
- current second.
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- FUNCTION t_gettime : Integer ;
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- Use this call to find our the current system time since midnight on the
- current day. The time is returned as an integer in the following format:
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- bits contents
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- 0- 4 number of two-seconds (0-29)
- 5-10 number of minutes (0-59)
- 11-15 number of hours (0-23)
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- Notice that the seconds returned is the number of two-second intervals, so you
- have to multiply by two to get the number of seconds. This also means that
- the clock is only accurate to an even number of seconds.
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- Time and Date Page 2
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- Set time.
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- FUNCTION t_settime( time : integer ) : integer ;
- GEMDOS( $2d ) ;
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- This call sets the time using the same format as the t_gettime call. It
- returns 0, if the time was valid, and a negative error number, otherwise.
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- The calls described above are the "GEMDOS" calls for date and time. There are
- also underlying XBIOS calls to perform the same functions. As usual, we
- advise that you use the GEMDOS calls whenever possible (unless they have
- bugs!).
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- Set the system date and time.
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- PROCEDURE settime( date, time : integer ) ;
- XBIOS( 22 ) ;
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- This call sets the date and time in the intelligent keyboard. The date and
- time are the same format as the GEMDOS set date and set time calls described
- above. You should normally use the GEMDOS calls, not this call.
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- Get the system date and time.
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- FUNCTION gettime : Long_Integer ;
- XBIOS( 23 ) ;
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- This call returns the current date in the high word of the result parameter,
- and the current time in the low word, both in standard GEMDOS format.
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