how to use DateTime class

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Kyle Y asked Sep 30 2019 at 7:59 AM Steven Hamoen answered Oct 08 2019 at 9:00 PM

how to use DateTime class

2019-09-05 01:23:14
I got a string like before, I am wondering how to convert to DateTime format and then retrieve Year(2019) and minute(23) directly? Is it possible? Thank you .

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.0

datetime

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Jacob Gillespie ♦ commented · Oct 07 2019 at 6:15 PM

The ability to parse DateTime strings with the DateTime class will be available in FlexSim 20.0

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CSN commented · Sep 30 2019 at 8:13 AM

Please send the string you want before conversion and the format you want to convert after conversion. Let me give you an example.

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Kyle Y CSN commented · Sep 30 2019 at 8:15 AM

2019-09-05 01:23:14
the above is the string. I need to convert DateTime in the same format. Thank you.

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Answer 1 · 2019-09-30T17:27:12Z

Steven Hamoen answered Sep 30 2019 at 5:27 PM

@BJ C @Kyle Y

This is not the correct answer because there is function called "convert" which can convert a string into a datetime. Only issue is that it expects the time before the data (so 01:23:14 2019-09-05) but with the string class this is not very complex.

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Kyle Y commented · Oct 01 2019 at 1:29 AM

Thank you Steven. I have tried with the following code as you mention, but seems there are still something wrong. IIt's supposed to return 2019. But FlexSim return only 1999. Could you please help to have a look? Thank you.

string dateString="00:59:23 2019-09-05";
double dateNum = convert(dateString, DATE_STR, FS_DATETIME);
DateTime dateObject = DateTime(dateNum);
return dateObject.year;

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Steven Hamoen Kyle Y commented · Oct 01 2019 at 7:17 AM

@Kyle Y

There are 2 remarks here:

1. First you are not converting from a DATE_STR but from a DATETIME_STR

2. Make sure that the string matches the settings in FlexSim concerning the time and date notation.

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Kyle Y Steven Hamoen commented · Oct 06 2019 at 1:50 PM

Thank you Steven. Seems the Datetime_str should in this format: "8:00:00 AM Fri 26 Aug 2016"? Am I correct?

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