Software Customisation Reference Manual

Name	Result	Purpose
DateTime()	DATETIME	Create a DATETIME object with current date and time in it.
DateTime(REAL year, REAL month, REAL date)	DATETIME	Create a DATETIME set to the given year, month, date. Time defaults to 00:00:00.
DateTime(REAL year, STRING month. REAL date)	DATETIME	As above, but month is a STRING at least three characters long representing month e.g. ‘Jan’, ‘March’, ‘DECEM’
DateTime(REAL year, REAL month, REAL date, REAL hour,REAL minute)	DATETIME	Create a DATETIME object set to given year, month, date, hour, minute. Seconds default to 0.
DateTime(REAL year, STRING month, REAL date, REAL hour, REAL minute)	DATETIME	As above, but month is a STRING at least three characters long representing month e.g. ‘Jan’, ‘March’, ‘DECEM’
DateTime(REAL year, REAL month, REAL date, REAL hour, REAL minute, REAL second)	DATETIME	Create a DATETIME object set to given year, month, date, hour, minute, second.
DateTime(REAL year, STRING month, REAL date, REAL hour, REAL minute, REAL second)	DATETIME	As above, but month is a STRING at least three characters long representing month e.g. ‘Jan’, ‘March’, ‘DECEM’
Date()	REAL	Return day of month for this DATETIME object (1-31).
GEQ(DATETIME)	BOOLEAN	Test whether this DATETIME is later than or the same as argument DATETIME.
GT(DATETIME)	BOOLEAN	Test whether this date is later than argument DATETIME.
HOUR()	REAL	Return hour as REAL for this DATETIME object (0-23).
LEQ(DATETIME)	BOOLEAN	Test whether this DATETIME is earlier or the same as argument DATETIME
LT(DATETIME)	BOOLEAN	Test whether this DATETIME is earlier than argument DATETIME.
Minute()	REAL	Return minutes as REAL for this DATETIME object (0-59).
Month()	REAL	Return month as REAL for this DATETIME object (1-12).
MonthString()	STRING	Return month as STRING for this DATETIME object (‘January’, ’February’, etc.)
Second()	REAL	Return number of seconds as REAL for this DATETIME object (0-59).
Year()	REAL	Return year as REAL (e.g. 1998)