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- Introduction to CTRL
- CONTROL Classes
- Types of Control Functions
- CONTROL graphics
- CONTROL Functions
  - Funtions A
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  - Funtions C
  - Funtions D
  - Functions E
  - Functions F
    - fclose()
      Closes a file.
    - folderSelector()
      Opens the folder selector dialog and writes the name of the selected folder to the string variable "path".
    - fileSelector()
      Opens the file selection dialog and writes the selected file name to fileName.
    - fscanfPL()
      Reads a file similar to fscanf() except changes to the current WinCC OA language before converting.
    - floor()
      Rounds down to an integer.
    - findExecutable()
      The function searches for the given executable and returns the full path to it or an empty string if not found.
    - fwrite()
      Writes a number of bytes from a blob variable to a file.
    - fprintfPL()
      Writes to a file similar to fprintf() except changes to the current WinCC OA language before converting.
    - fseek()
      Sets the pointer of the file f from the position whence to the position defined by the offset.
    - formatTimeUTC()
      Returns the UTC time in a particular format.
    - fabs()
      Returns the absolute value of x.
    - fflush()
      Writes data to a file.
    - fprintf()
      Writes to a file.
    - fswAddPath()
      The functions add a path for monitoring to the FileSystemWatcher.
    - formatDebug()
      Similar to the function Debug() but instead of writing to the log viewer returns the debug messages as string,.
    - fmod()
    - formatTime()
      Returns the time in a particular format.
    - fscanf()
      Reads a file.
    - fillSelector()
      Opens the filling pattern selector and writes the selection to a variable.
    - fileToString()
      This function loads an ASCII file and writes the contents into a string variable.
    - fontSelector()
      Opens the font type selector and writes the selection to a variable.
    - fopen()
      Opens a file.
    - feof()
      Examines whether an end of file has been noted.
    - formatSelector()
      Opens the format selector and writes the string format that has been selected on the format string variable.
    - fread()
      Reads a number of bytes from a file to a blob variable.
    - fscanfUL()
      Reads a file like fscanf(), but change to the current Windows user language before converting.
    - fileEditor()
      Opens text files such as .txt and .doc files in an editor. You can edit both plain and rich text.
    - fputs()
      Writes a string to a file.
    - fprintfUL()
      Writes to a file similar to fprintf() except changes to the current Windows user language before converting.
    - fgets()
      Returns a string from a file.
    - ftell()
      The ftell function obtains the current value of the file position indicator for the stream pointed to by f.
    - ferror()
      Examines whether a file error has been noted.
    - fswRemovePath()
      The function removes a path from the monitoring of the FileSystemWatcher.
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formatTimeUTC()

Returns the UTC time in a particular format.

Synopsis

string formatTimeUTC(string format, time t[, string milliFormat]);

Parameters


Parameter	Description
format	Output format (without milliseconds) or in HTTP or ISO format. If you specify the " HTTP" format, the function returns the UTC time in HTTP format and the milliseconds (string milliFormat) are ignored (see RFC 2616). if you specify the "ISO" format returns the UTC time in ISO format in a dateTime string.
t	time
milliFormat	Output format for the milliseconds

Return value

The function returns the UTC time format as a string or in the event of errors an empty string.

Error

With incorrect variable types or invalid arguments

Description

The function formatTimeUTC() determines the UTC time of the given time t in a format defined by the arguments format and milliFormat. The string format contains the formatting with an accuracy of seconds. The parameters available for this are those of the function strftime() of the ANSI C standard (see formatTime()).

The format fprintf() is used in the optional string milliFormat to specify milliseconds. The corresponding output will be appended to the expression generated by the first format specification.

Example

The following example outputs the week in the year, date and time in the local time (localTime) and UTC time (utcTime).

main()
{
  time t1;
  string localTime;
  string utcTime;
  setTime(t1,2010,6,1,15);
  localTime = formatTime("%W; %c", t1, " ms: %04d");
  utcTime = formatTimeUTC("%W; %c", t1, " ms: %04d");
  DebugN("Local: ", localTime);
  //Output: ["Local: "]["22; 6/1/2010 3:00:00 PM ms: 0000"]
  DebugN("UTC: ", utcTime);
  //Output: ["UTC: "]["22; 6/1/2010 1:00:00 PM ms: 0000"]
}

The following example returns a UTC dateTime string in ISO and in HTTP formats.

main()
{
  string dt1, dt2;
  dt1 = formatTimeUTC("ISO", makeTime(2014, 6, 30, 18, 30, 3,
  7));
  dt2 = formatTimeUTC("HTTP", makeTime(2014, 6, 30, 18, 30, 3,
  7));
  DebugN("format time UTC/ISO:", dt1);
  DebugN("format time UTC/HTTP:", dt2);
}

As of the version 3.18 ISO projects cannot be created anymore. Create UTF-8 projects instead.

Assignment

Time function

Availability

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