MilliSecondSpan

Calculate the approximate number of milliseconds between two TDateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 300

Arguments

Function result

Number (fractions included) of seconds between ANow and AThen.

Description

MilliSecondSpan returns the number of milliseconds between ANow and AThen. Since millisecond is the smallest fraction of a TDateTime indication, the returned number will always be an integer value.

See also

Example

Program Example70;

{ This program demonstrates the MilliSecondSpan function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

begin
 Write('Number of milliseconds between ');
 Write(TimeToStr(AThen),' and ',TimeToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',MilliSecondSpan(ANow,AThen));
end;

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Now;
  D2:=D1-(0.9*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(1.0*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(1.1*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2.5*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
End.