MinuteSpan

Calculate the approximate number of minutes between two DateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 273

function MinuteSpan(

const ANow: TDateTime;

const AThen: TDateTime

):Double;

Arguments

`ANow`		First moment in time
`AThen`		Second moment in time

Function result

Number (fractions included) of minutes between ANow and AThen

Description

MinuteSpan returns the number of minutes between ANow and AThen, including any fractional parts of a minute.

YearSpan		Calculate the approximate number of years between two DateTime values.
MonthSpan		Calculate the approximate number of months between two DateTime values.
WeekSpan		Calculate the approximate number of weeks between two DateTime values.
DaySpan		Calculate the approximate number of days between two DateTime values.
HourSpan		Calculate the approximate number of hours between two DateTime values.
SecondSpan		Calculate the approximate number of seconds between two DateTime values.
MilliSecondSpan		Calculate the approximate number of milliseconds between two DateTime values.
MinutesBetween		Calculate the number of whole minutes between two DateTime values.

Example

Program Example68;

{ This program demonstrates the MinuteSpan function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

begin
 Write('Number of minutes between ');
 Write(TimeToStr(AThen),' and ',TimeToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',MinuteSpan(ANow,AThen));
end;

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Now;
  D2:=D1-(59*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(61*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(122*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(306*OneSecond);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(5.4*OneMinute);
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=D1-(2.5*OneMinute);
  Test(D1,D2);
End.

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