MinutesBetween

Calculate the number of whole minutes between two TDateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 283

Arguments

Function result

Number of minutes between ANow and AThen.

Description

MinutesBetween returns the number of whole minutes between ANow and AThen. This means the fractional part of a minute (seconds, milliseconds etc.) is dropped.

See also

Example

Program Example60;

{ This program demonstrates the MinutesBetween function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

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

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Now;
  D2:=D1-(59*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(61*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(122*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(306*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5.4*OneMinute);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2.5*OneMinute);
  Test(D1,D2);
End.