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- From: lfosdal@falcon.no (Lars Fosdal)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Date/time manipulation
- Keywords: dat,time
- Message-ID: <XiJXXB1w165w@falcon.no>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:09:44 MET
- References: <1993Jan25.090426.14002@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: Falcon Information Services AS, Oslo, Norway
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- ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
-
- > In article <currin.27.727945571@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za>,
- > currin@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za writes
- > > 23/01/93, 00:01:31, 31, NAME OF SOMEONE
- > >This represents that time and date that someone exited the program
- > >followed by the minutes that they were using the software.
- > >Does anyone have any code that takes a minutes figure away from the
- > >date and time ?
- >
- > Huh? If it is in a fixed postition, just have to use the Copy
- > keyword to extract pertinent parts from the string, and then
- > recombine eg with +. Look up the Copy keyword. This is rather
- > trivial.
- >
-
- I believe that he wants to do a julian subtract from the date, not to
- copy a section of the string.
-
- f.x.
-
- 23/01/93, 00:01:31, 31, UserName -> 23/01/93, 00:01:00
-
- which is not as trivial (unless you use TP/BP and got the Turbo/Object
- Professional library from Turbo Power).
-
- Anyone with good shareware/PD date routines out there ?
- Please drop currin@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za a line !
-
- Lars F.
-