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convertDateTimeToTimeTicks() Operation

Within this context TimeTicks are UNIX timestamps.
Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time: it is the number of seconds elapsed since midnight UTC of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems.

Syntax

set aTimeTick = aDateTime.convertDateTimeToTimeTicks();

Semantics

Converts a DateTime object to a Unix timestamp.

Substitutables

aDateTime

Can be any variable or object attribute having the type DateTime. 

aTimeTick

Can be any variable or object attribute having the type Integer.

Examples

 
set aTimeTick = aDateTime.convertDateTimeToTimeTicks();
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ActionScript_TimeConversions_Example

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