Date Functions
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:07 pm
This Pickwiki posting has a number of useful date functions using Iconv()/Oconv().
- GetDateFormat - return: true if International format (dd/mm/yy) is set.
GetElapsedPeriod - return: elapsed years @am months @am days
GetElapsedTime - return: difference in seconds
GetElapsedTime.toString - return: oconv'd time (hh:mm:ss)
GetEpochTime - return: epoch time - seconds from 1970-01-01 UTC
GetISODateTime - return: ISO Date Time string yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ
GetISOWeekOfYear - return: ISO8601 week of year
GetRFCDateTime - return: RFC 1123 Date Time string: Sun, 06 Nov 1994
08:49:37 GMT
GetNumberSuffix - return: numeric ordinal suffix ('st,nd,rd,th')
GetTimeZoneString - return: users current TZ string
ParseEpochTime - return: date:@am:time [local at the time zone]
ParseEpochTime.toString - return: iso date time
ParseISODateTime - return: epoch time - seconds from 1970-01-01 UTC
ParseISODateTime.local - return: (user local) date:@am:time
ParseRFCDateTime - return: Epoch time - seconds from 1970-01-01 UTC
ParseRFCDateTime.local - return: (user local) date:@am:time
SetDateFormat - Set the date format ON to International (dd/mm/yy)