MinuteSpan

Calculate the approximate number of minutes between two TDateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 276

  function MinuteSpan(const ANow: TDateTime; const AThen: TDateTime)
                      : Double;

Description

MinuteSpan returns the number of minutes between ANow and AThen, including any fractional parts of a minute.

See also

Name	Description
DaySpan	Calculate the approximate number of days between two TDateTime values.
HourSpan	Calculate the approximate number of hours between two TDateTime values.
MilliSecondSpan	Calculate the approximate number of milliseconds between two TDateTime values.
MinutesBetween	Calculate the number of whole minutes between two TDateTime values.
MonthSpan	Calculate the approximate number of months between two TDateTime values.
SecondSpan	Calculate the approximate number of seconds between two TDateTime values.
WeekSpan	Calculate the approximate number of weeks between two TDateTime values.
YearSpan	Calculate the approximate number of years between two TDateTime values.

Example

Program Example68;
{ This program demonstrates the MinuteSpan function }
Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;
Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);
begin
 Write('Number of minutes between ');
 Write(TimeToStr(AThen),' and ',TimeToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',MinuteSpan(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.