Nowfunction

Gets the current system time as a Date Serial

Syntax

Declare Function Now ( ) As Double

Return value

Returns a date serial containing the system's date and time at execution time.

Description

As the time is the decimal part of a date serial, if the value of Now is saved to an integer, the time in it will be reset to 00:00:00

The compiler will not recognize this function unless vbcompat.bi is included.

Remarks

Usage


#include "vbcompat.bi"
result = Now


Differences from QB

• Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in PDS and VBDOS
  
  

See also

• Date Serials
  
  

Example

#include "vbcompat.bi"



Dim a As Double = Now()



Print Format(a, "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss")

Reference

• Documented in KeyPgNow.html