Help needed with time 1

[fergmj]

I have a mechanism that when it receives a UDP message, it writes to an ini file the current time.

I need to find a way to use a time and check the currenttime against the &quot;last good time&quot; from my ini file. If the currenttime is 70 minutes after the last good time, then <do something>

Theoretically, I send the UDP message every 60 minutes so it would only see 70 minutes if the mechanism sending the UDP failed...and that is what this is suppose to catch.

Mindy

 

[2ffat]

Are you looking for time functions or timer functions? There are several time functions in the Sysutils.h which is (by default) included in BCB projects. For example, to get the current time you could use

TDateTime TheCurrentTime = Time();

. You could also use

TDateTime MyINITime = StringToTime(TimeString)

to convert the time in the file from a string to a TDateTime.

James P. Cottingham

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[fergmj]

James,

I like the way you have it above.

How then would I be able to see if TheCurrentTime is 70 minutes later than MyINITime?

Mindy

 

[2ffat]

The might be a couple of ways. Play around with subtracting MyINITime from TheCurrentTime. I don't know if subtraction is overloaded for TDateTime or not.

Another way is too use EncodeTime and/or DecodeTime. (See your help files for more info or check back here). This way you could subtract the hours and minutes from the two and get your difference.

Good Luck. James P. Cottingham

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I have done so much with so little
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to do anything with nothing.