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mbeckham
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

DateTime milliseconds rounding

Hi,  I'm hoping there is someone who may have a solution to my problem. I have a SQL database column ActionDateTime (datetime) with the following value:  The value displayed on the website is...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    4 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Consider .GetHours() and .GetMinutes() methods of aqDateTime object to get just hours and minutes and combine obtained values with the date and format as required.

    Or convert the value obtained from the database to string and get a substring excluding everything after minutes.

     

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mbeckham
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Hi Marsha,

I modified the code:

dateActioned = aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(Qry3.FieldByName("ActionDateTime").Value, "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M%S");
Log.Message("dateActioned: " + dateActioned );

 

dateActioned: 26/11/2020 10:5800

 

As you can see the rounding has occurred during the format ( should be 10:5759 ) so the milliseconds ( 623) has caused the seconds to round up and then the minutes to round up also.

If there was a format code for the milliseconds portion of the datetime then I think there could be a viable solution using the substring to truncate them from the string.

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    4 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Consider .GetHours() and .GetMinutes() methods of aqDateTime object to get just hours and minutes and combine obtained values with the date and format as required.

    Or convert the value obtained from the database to string and get a substring excluding everything after minutes.

     

    • sonya_m's avatar
      sonya_m
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      4 years ago

      Thank you for involving, Marsha and Alex!

       

      mbeckham did the advice help?