Free Date & Time Library for DataFlex 2021 and 2022

The DataFlex Date & Time Library is useful when working with date and time in your applications. The library is now available for DataFlex 2021 and 2022.

The DataFlex Date & Time Library

When working with date and time in your applications it is important to consider for example:

• The different timezones
   
• Daylight saving time
   
• The current system date and time
   
• But also the milliseconds it takes to startup a system

The DataFlex Date & Time Library contains several functions to assist with anything date and time related in your DataFlex applications.

A few functions of the DataFlex Date & Time Library are:

• CompareFileTimes - Compares two time values (earlier, equal and later)
   
• TickCount / TickCount64 - Retrieves the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started
   
• SetLocalTime - Sets the current local time and date
   
• SystemTimes - Retrieves system timing information
   
• QueryPerformanceCounter - Retrieves the current value of the performance counter
   
• QueryPerformancePercentage - Retrieves the frequency of the performance counter
   
• QueryUnbiasedInterruptTime - Gets the current unbiased interrupt-time count
   
• SystemTime - Retrieves the current system date and time in UTC format
   
• SetSystemTime - Changes the system timeSystemTimeAdjustment - Determines whether the system is applying periodic time adjustments to its time-of-day clock
   
• FormatSystemTimeToTime - Formats a tSystemTime value to a DataFlex Time value using the regional settings
   
• TimeZoneInformation - Retrieves the current time zone settings
   
• TimeZoneInformationForYear - Retrieves the current time zone settings for a specific year
   
• SystemTimeToFileTime - Helper function to convert a time value
   
• SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime - Converts a tSystemTime value via TimeZoneInformation to a TimeZone Specific Local Time

An overview of all functions is included on the download page.

Note: you also need the free DataFlex Conversions Library for the DataFlex Date & Time Libary.
 

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