SecondsBetween

Calculate the number of whole seconds between two TDateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 284

Arguments

Function result

Number of seconds between ANow and AThen.

Description

SecondsBetween returns the number of whole seconds between ANow and AThen. This means the fractional part of a second (milliseconds etc.) is dropped.

See also

Example

Program Example61;

{ This program demonstrates the SecondsBetween function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

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

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Now;
  D2:=D1-(999*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(1001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5001*OneMilliSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5.4*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2.5*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
End.