Class Clock

Description:

The Clock class provides access to the system's date and time, offering properties to retrieve current time, date, and related information in different formats.

Properties

Clock.LastError

• Description: Stores the last error message, if any operation fails, including a timestamp in yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss format.
• Example: "2024-10-16 14:30:00: Example error message"
• Differences from orig. SB: Not available at original SB.

Clock.Time

• Description: Returns the current system time as a string in HH:mm:ss format or another format, if set with Clock.TimeFormat.
• Example: "14:30:45"
• Differences from orig. SB: Original uses system time format, where as SBOE uses format HH:mm:ssas default.

Clock.TimeFormat

• Description: Get's or set's the time format used with Clock.Time. By default, Clock.Time uses HH:mm:ss format.
• Example: Let's ignore seconds.Clock.TimeFormat = "HH:mm"
• Differences from orig. SB: Not available at original SB.
• More about time and date formats at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/formatting-types

Clock.Date

• Description: Returns the current system date as a string in yyyy-MM-dd format or another format, if set with Clock.TimeFormat.
• Example: "2024-1+.28"
• Differences from orig. SB: Original uses system date format, where as SBOE uses format yyyy-MM-ddas default.

Clock.DateFormat

• Description: Get's or set's the date format used with Clock.Date. By default, Clock.Date uses yyyy-MM-dd format.
• Example: Let's ignore date. Clock.DateFormat = "yyyy-MM"
• Differences from orig. SB: Not available at original SB.
• More about time and date formats at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/formatting-types

Clock.Year

• Description: Returns the current system year as an integer.
• Example: 2024
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Month

• Description: Returns the current system month as an integer.
• Example: 10
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Day

• Description: Returns the current day of the month as an integer.
• Example: 16
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.WeekDay

• Description: Returns the current day of the week as a string.
• Example: "Wednesday"
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Hour

• Description: Returns the current system hour as an integer.
• Example: 14
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Minute

• Description: Returns the current system minute as an integer.
• Example: 30
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Second

• Description: Returns the current system second as an integer.
• Example: 45
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.Millisecond

• Description: Returns the current system millisecond as an integer.
• Example: 123
• Differences from orig. SB: none.

Clock.ElapsedMillisecondsAfterStart

• Description: Returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the program started.
• Example: 5000
• Differences from orig. SB: Not available in original SB.

Clock.ElapsedMilliseconds

• Description: Returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since January 1, 2024 (UTC).
• Example: 2000000000
• Differences from orig. SB: Original returned milliseconds from the start of year 1900.

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