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Chapter 5 - Text Utilities / Text Utilities Reference

Routines / Converting Numeric Representations Into Date and Time Strings

TimeString

The TimeString procedure converts a time in the standard date-time representation into a string, making use of the time formatting information in the specified resource.

PROCEDURE TimeString (dateTime: LongInt; wantSeconds: Boolean;
                      VAR result: Str255; intlParam: Handle);

dateTime

The date-time value in the representation returned by the Operating System procedure GetDateTime.

wantSeconds

A flag that indicates whether the seconds are to be included in the resulting string.

result

On output, contains the string representation of the time.

intlParam

A handle to a numeric-format ('itl0') resource that specifies time formatting information for use in the conversion.

DESCRIPTION

TimeString converts the long integer representation of date and time in the dateTime parameter into a Pascal string representation of the time. You can call the GetDateTime function to get the date-time value. GetDateTime is described in the book Inside Macintosh: Operating System Utilities.

TimeString produces a string that includes the seconds if you set the wantSeconds parameter to TRUE.

TimeString formats its data according to the information in the numeric-format resource specified in the intlParam parameter. If this value is NIL, TimeString uses the numeric-format resource from the current script. The numeric-format resource specifies whether or not to use leading zeros for the time values, whether to use a 12- or 24-hour time cycle, and how to specify morning or evening if a 12-hour time cycle is used.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

TimeString may move memory; your application should not call this procedure at interrupt time.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for the TimeString procedure are

Trap macro	Selector
_Pack6	$0010