Please help in getting milliseconds using asp

[millisecond]

Hi All,
Iam getting problem in retrieving milliseconds using asp programming. My problem is I wanna get the milliseconds from a date(datetime or from any date).Could you please help me out in this problem. In ASP I couldn't find any standard funtions or methods. If you know please send me information to prasadmsc@excite.com.

Thanks
prasad.

 

[topher0303]

This has always been an issue for me as well. VB & VBScript's Date datatype does not store milliseconds. What I have done in the past is store the time in the database without the milliseconds or in my SELECT statement, I use a function to chop off the milliseconds before returning it to the VBScript. If you need the milliseconds, this is a problem. If it is only for display purposes, you can convert it to a varchar in the SELECT statement that way it is returned to VBScript as a string. This method is only useful for displaying it. It won't allow you to perform date related functions against it.

If anyone has a better way of dealing with it, I would certainly like to hear it.

Chris.

 

[shaddow]

I think you can use Javascript in the source also for this task or a component.
But using both Javascript and Vbscript on same ASP page it will be slow in some way but will work as i knw ________
George, M

 

[topher0303]

I didn't think you could use both on the same page. Client-side yes, but server-side I think you are limited to only one or the other. I personally wouldn't want to combine them anyway. Go with one or the other. Just my $.000000002 though.

Chris.

 

[palbano]

>> I didn't think you could use both on the same page

yes you can but there are technical articles on MSDN that explain potential performance problems when doing so.

-pete

 

[shaddow]

Yes you can use and actually interact between them using "runat" directive.

<%@language=VBSCRIPT%>
<%
'asp code here
dim x
x=getTime()
%>
<script language=javascript runat=server>
function getTime()
{
  var tmp=new Date()
  return tmp
}
</script>

But actually you can entirelly write whole asp using

<script language=vbscript runat=server>
</script>

and

<script language=javascript runat=server>
</script>

And finally here is an example how can you get hour mins second and millisecond

<script language=javascript runat=server>
function getTime()
{
	t=new Date()
	var tmp=&quot;&quot;
	tmp+=&quot;Hours:&quot;+t.getHours()
	tmp+=&quot; Minutes:&quot;+t.getMinutes()
	tmp+=&quot; Seconds:&quot;+t.getSeconds()
	tmp+=&quot; Milliseconds:&quot;+t.getMilliseconds()
return tmp
}
</script>
<%
dim time1
time1=getTime()
response.Write &quot;Time1:&quot;&time1
%>

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George, M