SECONDS()

Purpose

Function to extract seconds from a time string

Syntax

SECONDS([<time-string>])

See Also

AMPM(), CTOT(), DATE(), DATETIME(), ELAPTIME(), HOUR(), HOURS(), MINUTE(), MINUTES(), SEC(), SECS(), SET SECONDS, TIME(), TIMESTAMP(), TSTRING(), TTOC(), TTOD(), VALIDTIME()

Description

The SECONDS() function returns the seconds elapsed since midnight from the current system time as a number. The SECONDS() function will also return the elapsed seconds since midnight from an optionally specified <time-string>.

From Lianja v2.0 milliseconds are included for the returned current system time.

Example

? seconds("10:13:21")
     38601
// From Lianja v2.0
? seconds()
 36834.470