Date and Time Functions

Hey Guys,

Has anybody done any work implementing Date and Time functions?

I was thinking of playing around with a scheduling like application but the thought of writing a whole bunch of calendar functions sounds really boring. ie. What day of the week is a particular date, How many days in a month in the correct year etc. yuck.

I guess this stuff is all available at the system level. Perhaps its time i learnt how to call system stuff.

I've been looking at strftime and the way bmax uses it to return the current date and time. Looks like it shouldn't be tooo painful do do what I need. I'll have a look into making a nice Date Type later tonight.

Would still like to hear from any of you who have already done this.

Here is one from the codearchives.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1726

just a note about smurftra's TDateTime, there is a tiny fix required:

Second = Int(tTime$[7..])

should read:

Second = Int(tTime$[6..])

Smurftra gave me this fix for my framework.

3 Julian Date functions I posted in the code archives for BlitzMax:

Print JulianDay%("26 MAR 2006")       ' = 2453821
Print JulianDate(2453821)             ' = "26 MAR 2006"
Print DayFromDate$("26 MAR 2006")     ' = "Sunday"

Link:
http://www.blitzmax.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1647

Here is another one in module form.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=54935