calculating time

Hi, in my program i want to get the current time as soon as
the program starts to run a batch process and again when it
finishes running the batch process.

that part is no problem

what i can't seem to do is calculate how long the process
took using the two stored times.

how do you do this?

thanks in advance

MICK

How long of a time interval are you expecting ?

You can use DateDiff to return the elapsed seconds.

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim startTime As Date
    Dim finishTime As Date
    Dim elapsed As Long
    Dim x As Long
    startTime = Now
    For x = 1 To 100000000
        'Do whatever
    Next x
    finishTime = Now
    elapsed = DateDiff("s", startTime, finishTime)
    MsgBox startTime & vbCrLf & finishTime & vbCrLf & elapsed & " seconds passed"
End Sub

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If you need something more accurate, use the GetTickCount API to get the milliseconds that have passed.

Look here http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=39963 for a few other ideas.

[Edited by jbart on 11-27-2000 at 09:11 AM]