ITime Interface

Provides access to members that control the Time.

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Description

The ITime interface is used to access a scalar time value.  There is no associated temporal reference, so there is no time zone or daylight savings time associated with the value.  The ITime interface can be used to do simple conversions, such as setting a year, month and day, then getting querying for a Julian Day number.  The ITime interface supports values with nanosecond accuracy.  In general, setting individual values such as the year, month, and day can be problematic.  for example, if the Month is set to 2 (February) when the day already has the value 31, this will cause an error because there is no February 31st.  It would be better to set the month and day at the same time.

Members

	Name	Description
	Compare	Compares this time to the other time. Returns -1 if this time's value is less, 1 if greater, and 0 otherwise.
	Day	The time's gregorian day.
	Hour	The time's hour.
	Minute	The time's minute.
	Month	The time's gregorian month.
	Nanoseconds	The time's nanoseconds.
	QueryDayFraction	The time's time portion as a day fraction. Corresponds to the Hour, Minute, Second, and Nanoseconds properties.
	QueryGregorianTime	Obtains the time as a gregorian date and time.
	QueryIntegerTime	Obtains the time as an integer time.
	QueryJulianDayNumber	The Time's date portion as a julian (Julius Scaliger) day number. Corresponds to the Year, Month, and Day properties.
	QueryNanosecondsSinceMidnight	The time's time portion as the number of nanoseconds elapsed since midnight. Corresponds to the Hour, Minute, Second, and Nanoseconds properties.
	QueryOleTime	Obtains the time as an OLE automation date object.
	QueryTicks	Obtains the time as the number of ticks since January 1, 0001 AD (Anno Domini).
	QueryTimeString	Obtains the time as a string, based on the given time string format.
	QueryTimeStringCurrentLocale	Obtains the time as a string, based on the current locale.
	QueryTimeStringCustom	Obtains the time as a string, based on the given custom time string format, and locale properties.
	QueryXMLTimeString	Obtains the time as an XML time string.
	Second	The time's second.
	SetDayFraction	The time's time portion as a day fraction. Corresponds to the Hour, Minute, Second, and Nanoseconds properties.
	SetFromCurrentLocalTime	Writes the time to the current date and time on this machine, expressed as the local time.
	SetFromCurrentUtcTime	Writes the time to the current date and time on this machine, expressed as the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
	SetFromGregorianTime	Obtains the time from a given gregorian date and time value.
	SetFromIntegerTime	Writes the time from an integer time.
	SetFromObject	Writes the time from a variant object.
	SetFromOleTime	Writes the time from an OLE automation date object.
	SetFromTicks	Writes the time from a given number of ticks since January 1, 0001 AD (Anno Domini) value.
	SetFromTimeString	Writes the time from a string, based on the given time string format.
	SetFromTimeStringCurrentLocale	Obtains the time from a string, based on the current locale.
	SetFromTimeStringCustom	Writes the time from a string, based on the given custom time string formats, and locale properties.
	SetFromXMLTimeString	Writes the time from an XML time string.
	SetJulianDayNumber	The Time's date portion as a julian (Julius Scaliger) day number. Corresponds to the Year, Month, and Day properties.
	SetNanosecondsSinceMidnight	The time's time portion as the number of nanoseconds elapsed since midnight. Corresponds to the Hour, Minute, Second, and Nanoseconds properties.
	SnapToEndOfMonth	Adjust the day value, to the last day in the current month and year.
	SubtractTime	Subtracts a given time, and returns the time duration result.
	ToLocal	Converts the time from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) value to local (to this machine) time.
	ToUTC	Converts the time from local (to this machine) time value to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
	Year	The time's gregorian year.

Classes that implement ITime