Introduction
B4P provides some powerful functions to process date and time information (particularly the variable type date) as well as stopwatch functions. The sections are:
The following important date functions are found in the section Type Conversion Functions and convert data of other types, e.g. strings, to dates.:
Procedures and Functions Provided:
Check if value contains date or time:
date inside
time inside
Date info functions:
day
month
quarter
year
day of year
date info functions:
serial date
weekday from date:
weekday
week
financial quarter, fiscal quarter:
fq
financial year, fiscal year:
fy
reschedule
Time Info Functions:
hour
minute
second
Stopwatch functions:
watch continue
watch read
watch reset
watch start
watch stop
Sleep and wait functions:
sleep
sleep countdown
sleep until
sleep until countdown
wait until
wait until countdown
wait
wait countdown