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	`convertDateTimeToTimeTicks()` converts a DateTime object to a Unix timestamp.
Substitutables	aDateTime	Can be any variable or object attribute having the type DateTime.
Substitutables	aTimeTick	Can be any variable or object attribute having the type Integer.
Examples	NONE `set aTimeTick = aDateTime.convertDateTimeToTimeTicks();`

ActionScript_Time_Conversions_Example

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convertTimeTicksToDateTime() Operation