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brad-s
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In my maintain, I have two time variables:
TIMEAA/A8 and TIMEBB/A8

I initially set TIMEAA = HHMMSS();

At various intervals, I set TIMEBB = HHMMSS();

How do i compute the differnce between
TIMEAA and TIMEBB ?? (Time elapsed)

Thanks
Brad

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Brad S.
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Alan B
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This forum entry was for totaling time. The same basics could be used for elapsed time.


Alan.
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Brad
If that forum doesn't help, I would do this. I would just HGETC to get the System DATE / TIME and then use the HDIFF function to get the values.

Mark

MAINTAIN
COMPUTE DATE4/HYYMDS= HGETC(10, DATE4);
REPEAT 600000
ENDREPEAT;
COMPUTE DATE5/HYYMDS= HGETC(10, DATE5);
COMPUTE MINDIFF/D12.2 = HDIFF(DATE5, DATE4, 'SECOND', MINDIFF);
-* COMPONENT CAN BE HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, MILLISECOND, ETC...
TYPE "DATE4 = << DATE4"
TYPE "DATE5 = << DATE5"
TYPE "DIFF = << MINDIFF"
END
 
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brad-s
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Thanks....I'll give it a try.


Brad S.
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brad-s
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Thanks Guru for the technique below
It works!



EXAMPLE:

MAINTAIN

MODULE IMPORT(MNTUWS);

-* DATA/A8 represent the time variable
-* from existing database (note the periods)
COMPUTE DATA/A8 = '12.00.00';

COMPUTE
STR3/A1 = ':';
STR2/A1 = '.';
-* used STRAN to replace "." with ":"
-* in order to get right format for DT1
TDATA/A8 = STRAN(DATA, STR2, STR3);
NOW/A10 = TODAY2();
DT1/HYYMDS= NOW | ' ' | TDATA;
DT4/HYYMDS = HGETC(16, DT4);

-* HDIFF computes differences between times
-* expressed in minutes
MINDIFF/D12.2 = HDIFF(DT1, DT4, 'MINUTE', MINDIFF);

TYPE "DT1 = <TYPE "DT4 = <TYPE "DIFF = <END


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