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+ <topic id="textsbasicshared03030303xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Timer Function</title>
+ <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030303.xhp</filename>
+ </topic>
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+<body>
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+<section id="timer">
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149346">
+ <bookmark_value>Timer function</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+
+<h1 id="hd_id3149346"><variable id="Timer_H1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030303.xhp" name="Timer Function">Timer Function</link></variable></h1>
+<paragraph id="par_id3156023" role="paragraph">Returns a value that specifies the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight.</paragraph>
+</section>
+<paragraph id="par_id3156212" role="note">You must first declare a variable to call the Timer function and assign it the "Long " data type, otherwise a Date value is returned.</paragraph>
+
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functsyntax"/>
+<bascode>
+ <paragraph id="par_id3161831" role="bascode" localize="false">Timer</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functvalue"/>
+<paragraph id="par_id3146984" role="paragraph">Date</paragraph>
+
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functexample"/>
+<bascode>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341580128" role="bascode" localize="false">Sub ExampleTimer</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341578896" role="bascode" localize="false"> Dim lSec As Long,lMin As Long,lHour As Long</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341577632" role="bascode" localize="false"> lSec = Timer</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_id3145748" role="bascode"> MsgBox lSec, 0, "Seconds since midnight"</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341574656" role="bascode" localize="false"> lMin = lSec / 60</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341573424" role="bascode" localize="false"> lSec = lSec Mod 60</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341572192" role="bascode" localize="false"> lHour = lMin / 60</paragraph>
+ <paragraph id="par_idm1341570960" role="bascode" localize="false"> lMin = lMin Mod 60</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3156283" role="bascode"> MsgBox Right("00" &amp; lHour , 2) &amp; ":"&amp; Right("00" &amp; lMin , 2) &amp; ":" &amp; Right("00" &amp; lSec , 2), 0, "The time is"</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341567920" role="bascode" localize="false">End Sub</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+
+<note id="par_id491610993401822">The <literal>Timer</literal> function measures time in seconds. To measure time in milliseconds use the <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03/sf_timer.xhp" name="Timer_link">Timer service</link> available in the <literal>ScriptForge</literal> library.</note>
+
+<section id="relatedtopics">
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03/sf_timer.xhp#TimerService"/>
+</section>
+
+</body>
+</helpdocument>