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Semantics | Converts a string having the XML Schema Duration format into a DateTime object. Duration may be expressed using all the parts of a DateTime type (from year to fractions of a second) and are, therefore, defined as a "six-dimensional space". As the relation between some of the date parts is not fixed (such as the number of days in a month), the order relationship between durations is only partial and the result of a comparison between two durations may be undetermined. | ||||||
Substitutables | aString | Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String. The format must correspond to the XML Schema Duration format. | |||||
LITERAL | String literal. The format must correspond to the XML Schema Duration format. | ||||||
Error Codes | Find the related error codes on System Errors of type conversion operations. | ||||||
Examples | This example generates a DateTime object that corresponds to the duration of two days. This object can then be used to do time arithmetic, that is, adding and subtracting durations from dates.
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