User`s guide

STANDARD PRINTER COMMANDS

TIME ADD

TE ADD

TIME ?

TE ?

Adds the specified interval to the last

time read by TIME GET (that is, to the

value currently stored in the variable

TIME). The specified time interval

must be in the form described under

TIME SET, and you must specify all

six parameters. Added intervals can

be negative or positive. Addition

starts at the seconds field, and added

values arithmetically carry or borrow

when a field over- or underflows.

This command causes the current

time to be sent as a formatted

string back through the

communications port. For example,

“Friday 12/9/2005 12:56:51”.

IMPORTANT!

Not all printers support the TIME command, and not all

printers that support the command have a real-time clock

(this is a hardware option). Without a real-time clock, the

TIME variable will remain at zero or in an undefined

state.

TIME ADD will change the value stored in TIME,

but the results are unpredictable if there is no installed

clock.

Comments You access the data provided by the clock using the

system variable TIME. This variable has formatting

parameters, allowing you to extract time data in a

variety of forms. Format the variable output by

placing a format string after the variable name and

bounding the variable and its format string with the

variable delimiter (see DELIMIT).

NOTE: TIME will not return a value unless it is followed

by formatting characters and bounded by the variable

delimiter.

Here are the allowable formatting characters you can

place after the TIME variable:

Parameter

Returns

%% % character