combine time and date into variable

[inteleserve]

How can I get a variable to equal the time combined with tht date.

vartimedate = vartime & vardate
vartimedate = time() & date()

End with something like this:

12355603082004

for this time and date

12:35:56 03/08/04

 

[Walid]

ld = DATETIME()
? ld


Walid Magd
Engwam@Hotmail.com

 

[AirCon]

inteleserve,

Is it something like this?

cTime = time()
cDate = dtoc(date())
? chrtran(cTime + cDate, ':/-', '')


-- AirCon --

 

[inteleserve]

Well I guess all I need to to is convert the time and date into numbers or characters without "/" or ":".

Can you show me how to do this?

 

[AirCon]

Have you run the code I posted ?


-- AirCon --

 

[wgcs]

Try: TTOC(DATETIME(),1)

Of course, this will be formatted YYYYMMDDhhmmss
so that it sorts properly, where your example would sort all times of the same hour together, regardless of date.

 

[inteleserve]

wgcs,

datetime() does not work, i am using the unix version so maybe thats why....


aircon

cTime = time()
cDate = dtoc(date())
? chrtran(cTime + cDate, ':/-', '')

is not working...........

 

[wgcs]

Aha! That makes a big difference. Then you're on VFP3 for Unix, and Datetime() was introduced in VFP6.

AirCon's suggestion should work, unless TIME() is a new function too... what do you get when you run his code? An error? what is displayed by:
?TIME()
?DATE()
?DTOC(DATE())

 

[AirCon]

i am using the unix version so maybe thats why....

Arrgghh... I didn't think about that :-D


-- AirCon --

 

[inteleserve]

it works nevermind...........I had a brain fart....dam im retarded.....


thanks

Erin.

 

[inteleserve]

Ok ... tons of posts.. I got it now

ctime = time()
cdate = dtoc(date())
cdatetime = chrtran(ctime + cdate, ':/','')

AirCon - your post help me out tons... thanks

yeah .. datetime() does not exist on this old unix version.