Yes, you need to decode the date times as the fractional part of a TDateTime
is simply the proportion of the day - for instance, 0 is midnight, 0.5 is
noon, 0.75 is 6pm.
Another options is to investigate TTimeStamp, DateTimeToTimeStamp and
TimeStampToMSecs.
Regards,
Andrew Cooke.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Black [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 9:19 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: time between 'nows'
>
> I thought TDateTimes store the time in milli-seconds so that doing the
> following should work (at least for times in the same day):
>
> var
> start_time, end_time : TDateTime;
> duration : double;
> begin
> start_time := Now;
> ...
> end_time := Now;
>
> duration := (end_time - start_time) * 1000; {duration in seconds...}
> ShowMessage('process took'+Format('%f',[duration])+' seconds');
> end;
>
> For a process that took 2:21:43 (2 hours, 21 minutes), last night my
> code showed '97.22 seconds'. Mmmh - I need to decode the date_times?
>
> Grant Black
> Software Developer
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