NICETIME

Translates military time into civilian time format.

Reporting Area(s)

Courses, Registrations

Required Parameters

1. Time field (i.e. cocrsetm)

Optional Parameters

2. Logical .t. use Time from Costhr,costmin,coendhr,coendmin numeric fields. Setting to .t. will not show minutes (i.e. 7AM-9AM) unless you also set parameter #4 to .t.
3. Numeric return value: number of desired length of string - Pads string to N characters (i.e. 20 pads return value to 20 characters)
4. Logical .t. always shows the minutes designation.

Example(s)

NICETIME(cocrsetm) returns course meeting time in civilian time format (e.g. 7:00 am to 9:00 am)

NICETIME(cocrsetm,.f.,25) returns course meeting time in civilian time padded to 25 spaces (e.g. 7:00 am to 9:00 am)

NICETIME(cocrsetm,.t.,,.t.) returns course meeting time with minutes (e.g. 7:00 am to 9:00 am)

Notes

Time is stored in military format in the database tables.

Related Functions

ADDTIME
CIVTIME
DATELIST
GETCIV
NICEDATE
TIME