Using Date/Time in AS program

    Hi.
    I'm pretty much a novice at AS programming but want to make use of the date and time in some of my AS programs.
    The 'TIME' function doesn't seem to work when called from a program though.
    Has anyone managed this? Or got any ideas how to do it?
    Thanks in advance for any help.

    Hi Alexandru, What I want to do is somehow get the real time and date from the TIME function so that I can use it in an AS program.
    Perhaps to make the robot perform certain functions at certain times. I don't think the TIMER function will be suitable...

    You can use the $DATE function in order to returns the system date in the specified string format and $TIME function in order to returns the system time in hh:mm:ss string format. For more details you can read in AS Language Reference Manual.

    Problem is that whilst the TIME and DATE functions work after the command prompt, they don't work when typed into an AS program.
    The compiler just thinks they are variables....

    Here is a short code in order to test. Please note that $TIME and $DATE return a string format. Therefore, a1 is a string variable ( the sign $ in front of the variable indicate the string format). Replace hh:mm:ss with your desired time. The same way you can do with the $DATE function.


    10 $a1 = "hh:mm:ss"
    IF $a1 ==$TIME THEN
    CALL subroutine
    END
    GOTO 10


    Hope that this is what you are looking for.

    Thanks for your help Alexandru.
    That's got me sorted!
    I'd made a novice type mistake.
    I knew the time/date was returned as a string but had failed to put a $ in front of it...

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