GetLocaleTime

Availability

Flash Lite 1.1.

Description

Sets a parameter to a string representing the current time, formatted according to the currently defined locale.

Command

Parameters

Value returned

"GetLocaleTime"

time  String variable to receive the value of the current time, such as "6:10:44 PM" or "18:10:44".

It can be either the name of a variable or a string value that contains the name of a variable.

The value returned in time is a multicharacter, variable-length string. The actual formatting depends on the device and the locale.

-1: Not supported.

0: Supported.

Example

The following example attempts to get the current local time into the time variable. It also sets the value of status to report whether it was able to do so.

status = fscommand2("GetLocaleTime", "time");
trace(time);                                                 // output: 14:30:21

See also

GetLocaleLongDate, GetLocaleShortDate