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FORMAT TIME$
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement for specifying the format of the string returned by TIME$("F")
and TIMEADD$("F") instructions.
Syntax FORMAT TIME$
is a string representing the order between hours, minutes
and seconds plus possible separating characters.
“H“ represents hours in a 24 hour cycle (one digit per H)
"h" represents hours in a 12 hour cycle (one digit per h)
“M” represents minutes (one digit per M)
“S” represents seconds (one digit per S)
"P" represents AM/PM in connection with a 12 hour cycle
"p" represents am/pm in connection with a 12 hour cycle
all other character produce separator characters
Default: HHMMSS
Reset to default by: Empty string
Remarks Each H, h, M, and S character generates one digit. If the number of each
character exceeds 2, leading space characters are inserted. Uppercase or
lowercase P character generates one character of AM/PM or am/pm
respectively, when a 12-hour cycle is selected.
Hour, minute and second fields are right-justified, whereas am/pm and AM/
PM fields are left-justified.
Example (the hour is 8 o'clock in the morning):
h generates 8 P generates A
hh generates 08 PP generates AM
hhh generates 08 p generates a
To get 12-hour cycle, all hour format characters must be lowercase “h”.
Separating characters are returned as entered in the string. Any character but
H, h, M, S, P, or p are regarded as separators.
The time format is saved in the temporary memory and has to be transmitted
to the printer after each power-up.
Examples Changing the time format according to Swedish standard:
FORMAT TIME$ "HH.MM.SS"
Changing the date format to British standard:
FORMAT TIME$ "hh:MM p"
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