VariantTimeToSystemTime
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4/8/2010
This function converts the variant representation of time to system time values.
Syntax
int VariantTimeToSystemTime(
double vtime,
LPSYSTEMTIME lpSystemTime
);
Parameters
- vtime
[in] Specifies the variant time that will be converted.
- lpSystemTime
[out] Long pointer to the location where the converted time is stored.
Return Value
A non-zero value if the variant was successfully converted to a system time, zero otherwise.
Remarks
Passing invalid (and under some circumstances NULL) pointers to this function causes an unexpected termination of the application.
A variant time is stored as an 8-byte real value (double), representing a date between January 1, 1753 and December 31, 2078, inclusive.
The value 2.0 represents January 1, 1900; 3.0 represents January 2, 1900, and so on.
Adding 1 to the value increments the date by a day. The fractional part of the value represents the time of day. Therefore, 2.5 represents noon on January 1, 1900; 3.25 represents 6:00 A.M. on January 2, 1900, and so on.
Negative numbers represent the dates prior to December 30, 1899.
Using the SYSTEMTIME structure is useful for these reasons:
- It spans all time/date periods. MS-DOS date/time is limited to representing only those dates between 1/1/1980 and 12/31/2107.
- The date/time elements are all easily accessible without needing to do bit decoding.
- The National Language Support data and time formatting functions GetDateFormat and GetTimeFormat take a SYSTEMTIME value as input.
- It is the default Win32 time and date data format supported by Windows NT and Windows 95.
Requirements
| Header | oleauto.h |
| Library | oleaut32.lib |
| Windows Embedded CE | Windows CE 2.0 and later |
| Windows Mobile | Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later |