Date Functions

Silk Performer provides a number of functions to get the current date and time from the operating system, and to generate random dates and time intervals.

FormatDate Function
Converts a date into the specified format.
FormatDateTime Function
Converts date and time into the specified format.
GetCurrentDate Function
Returns the (local) current date in a YYYYMMDD format.
GetCurrentTime Function
Returns the (local) time of the current day in seconds.
GetTime Function
Returns the number of seconds elapsed since midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970 likewise as GMT or local time.
GetTimeStamp Function
Returns the number of seconds or milliseconds elapsed since midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970 likewise as GMT or local time.
IncDate Function
Adds a certain number of days to a date.
GetTickCount Function
Retrieves the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since Windows was started.
IncFormatDate Function
Adds a certain number of days to a date and converts it into the specified format.
RndDate Function
Adds a random number of days between 0 and nDays to a date.
RndFormatDate Function
Adds a random number of days between 0 and nDays to a date and formats this date into the specified format.

Parent topic: General Functions