Format

The format in which to display the times obtained.

•A few pre-formatted selections are available.

•You can create your own formatting as described further down. You should generally avoid using any formatting string that contains characters that refer to Windows global variables, since these can change on each workstation.

Round to Nearest Minute

Use this option to round off times to the nearest minute. For example, suppose we had the 2 following times: 07:33:13 and 17:24:43. With this option turned OFF, these times would be displayed as 07:33 and 17:24. However, if this option is turned ON, then these 2 times would be displayed as 07:33 and 17:24 (note how the 17:24 was rounded up to 17:25).

Minutes

This setting lets you specify that minutes should be displayed with different attributes than the original token (hence than the hours). Usually this setting is used to display the minutes in a smaller size font than the hours.

If no time, display

There are days when no moonrise, moonset, Moon transits, Moon phase, sunrise or sunset occurs. This option allows you to specify what text to use to represent these non-times (for example --:--).

Samples

Sample output showing the effect of the format selected above on a time before noon and a time after noon.

h

Displays the hour without a leading zero (0-23).

hh

Displays the hour with a leading zero (00-23).

n

Displays the minute without a leading zero (0-59).

nn

Displays the minute with a leading zero (00-59).

s

Displays the second without a leading zero (0-59).

ss

Displays the second with a leading zero (00-59).

z

Displays the millisecond without a leading zero (0-999).

zzz

Displays the millisecond with a leading zero (000-999).

t

Displays the time using the format given by the ShortTimeFormat global variable.

tt

Displays the time using the format given by the LongTimeFormat global variable.

am/pm

Uses the 12-hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier, and displays 'am' for any hour before noon, and 'pm' for any hour after noon. The am/pm specifier can use lower, upper, or mixed case, and the result is displayed accordingly.

a/p

Uses the 12-hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier, and displays 'a' for any hour before noon, and 'p' for any hour after noon. The a/p specifier can use lower, upper, or mixed case, and the result is displayed accordingly.

ampm

Uses the 12-hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier, and displays the contents of the TimeAMString global variable for any hour before noon, and the contents of the TimePMString global variable for any hour after noon.

x/x

Uses the 12-hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier, but does not display any am/pm label. So both morning and afternoon times are displayed exactly the same, without any indication that one corresponds to a morning time and the other to an afternoon or evening time. This formatting option should only be used if it is obvious from the context that the displayed time is a morning time or not (this is the case for Muslim prayer times where, for example, the time displayed for the sunset prayer is obviously after the noon hour). If the x/x formatting option is preceded by a space (for example: h:nn x/x) then that space will be removed by Q++Studio automatically to prevent problems with extra spaces if your times are displayed aligned to the right.

/

Displays the date separator character given by the DateSeparator global variable.

:

Displays the time separator character given by the TimeSeparator global variable.

"text"

Characters enclosed in double quotes are displayed as-is, and do not affect formatting.