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Converting Numeric Representations Into Date and Time Strings

This section describes the routines that you can use to convert numeric representations of date and time values into formatted strings. The numeric representation used in these routines is the standard date-time representation: a 32-bit integer value that is returned by the GetDateTime routine. This is a long integer value that represents the number of seconds between midnight, January 1, 1904, and the time at which GetDateTime was called, as described in the book Inside Macintosh: Operating System Utilities.

• The DateString procedure converts a date in the standard date-time representation into a string, making use of the date formatting information from a specified resource. If you specify NIL as the value of the resource handle parameter, DateString uses information from the current script.
• The TimeString procedure converts a time in the standard date-time representation into a string, making use of the time formatting information from a specified resource. If you specify NIL as the value of the resource handle parameter, TimeString uses information from the current script.

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TimeString