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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">TimeValue Function</title>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3149670" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030206.xhp" name="TimeValue Function">TimeValue Function</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153361" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Calculates a serial time value from the specified hour, minute, and second - parameters passed as strings - that represents the time in a single numeric value. This value can be used to calculate the difference between times.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3154138" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3156282" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">TimeValue (Text As String)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3153969" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3156424" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Date</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id3145172" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3145786" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that contains the time that you want to calculate in the format "HH:MM:SS".</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3152578" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Use the TimeValue function to convert any time into a single value, so that you can calculate time differences.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3163710" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">This TimeValue function returns the type Variant with VarType 7 (Date), and stores this value internally as a double-precision number between 0 and 0.9999999999.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151117" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">As opposed to the DateSerial or the DateValue function, where serial date values result in days relative to a fixed date, you can calculate with the values that are returned by the TimeValue function, but you cannot evaluate them.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3147426" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">In the TimeSerial function, you can pass individual parameters (hour, minute, second) as separate numeric expressions. For the TimeValue function, however, you can pass a string as a parameter containing the time.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3145271" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340872288" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleTimerValue</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340871056" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim daDT As Date</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340869824" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim a1, b1, c1, a2, b2, c2 As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149378" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> a1 = "start time"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3145800" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> b1 = "end time"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151074" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> c1 = "total time"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340863440" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> a2 = "8:34"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340862208" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> b2 = "18:12"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340860976" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> daDT = TimeValue(b2) - TimeValue(a2)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340859712" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> c2 = a1 & ": " & a2 & chr(13)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340858432" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> c2 = c2 & b1 & ": " & b2 & chr(13)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340857152" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> c2 = c2 & c1 & ": " & trim(Str(Hour(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Minute(daDT))) & ":" & trim(Str(Second(daDT)))</paragraph>
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