DATETIME

The DateTime library is written by Josef Franz Vögel. It extends the clock routines with date and time calculation.

The following functions are available:

DayOfWeek	Returns the day of the week
DayOfYear	Returns the day of the year
SecOfDay	Returns the second of the day
SecElapsed	Returns the elapsed Seconds to a former assigned time-stamp
SysDay	Returns a number, which represents the System Day
SysSec	Returns a Number, which represents the System Second
SysSecElapsed	Returns the elapsed Seconds to a earlier assigned system-time-stamp
Time	Returns a time-value (String or 3 Byte for Second, Minute and Hour) depending of the Type of the Target
Date	Returns a date-value (String or 3 Bytes for Day, Month and Year) depending of the Type of the Target

Date and time not to be confused with Date$ and Time$ !

The date starts at 1.1.2000 and valid from 2000 to 2099

If you wish to convert to NTP which starts at 1.1.1970, which is 30 years earlier, you need to subtract a value of 946684800

BASCOM DATE_TIME = NTP - 946684800

Most of the Date and Time functions accept variables which must be in sequential memory order. Like bSec, bMin, bHour

When using DIM like this : Dim bSec As Byte, bMin As Byte, bHour As byte , the variables will be in sequential order, but this might change in the future.

Better would be to be explicit : Dim bSec as byte , bMin as byte at bSec + 1 , bHour as byte at bMin + 1

This will ensure that the bytes will be mapped in the right order.

It is important that you use the CONFIG CLOCK option since this will include the date time library.