DTQwordDateTimeToDateTimeString

Converts QWORD values containing date & time information to a formatted date & time string as specified by the DateFormat parameter.

DTQwordDateTimeToDateTimeString PROTO qwDate:QWORD, qwTime:QWORD, lpszDateTimeString:QWORD, DateFormat:QWORD

Parameters

  • qwDate - QWORD value containing Date information to convert to the date & time string

The format for the value containing the date information is as follows:

date QWORD Register Bits:

+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+------------+-----------+
| DWORD                                            | WORD                   | BYTE       | BYTE      |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+------------+-----------+
| Bits 63-32                                       | Bits 31-16             | Bits 15-8  | Bits 7-0  |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+------------+-----------+
| Not used - Not applicable                        | Century Year           | Month      | Day       |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+------------+-----------+
| N/A                                              | CCCCYY                 | MM         | DD        |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+------------+-----------+
  • qwTime - QWORD value containing Time information to convert to the date & time string

The format for the value containing the time information is as follows:

time QWORD Register Bits:

+--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
| DWORD                                            | BYTE       | BYTE       | BYTE      | BYTE      |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
| Bits 63-32                                       | Bits 31-23 | Bits 23-16 | Bits 15-8 | Bits 7-0  |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
| Not used - Not applicable                        | Hour       | Minute     | Second    | Millisec  |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
| N/A                                              | HH         | MM         | SS        | MS        |
+--------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+
  • lpszDateTimeString - Pointer to a buffer to store the date & time string. The format of the date & time string is determined by the DateFormat parameter.

  • DateFormat - Value indicating the date & time format to return in the buffer pointed to by lpszDateTimeString parameter. The parameter can contain one of the following constants as listed in the DateTime Formats page and as defined in the DateTime.inc include file.

Returns

No return value

Notes

Example

.data
DateTimeStringValue db DATETIME_STRING dup (0) ; buffer to store date and time as string
DateValue dq 0
TimeValue dq 0

.code
xor rax, rax
mov rax, 1974 ; save year
shl rax, 16 ; move it into upper word of rax
mov ah, 03 ; save month
mov al, 15 ; save day
mov DateValue, rax
xor rax, rax
mov ah, 12 ; save hours
mov al, 34 ; save minutes
shl rax, 16 ; move it into upper word of rax
mov ah, 01 ; save seconds
mov al, 0 ; save milliseconds
mov TimeValue, rax

Invoke DTQwordDateTimeToDateTimeString, DateValue, TimeValue, Addr DateTimeStringValue, CCYYMMDDHHMMSS
; DateTimeStringValue will now contain "1974/03/15 12:36:01"

See Also

DTDateTimeStringToQwordDateTime, DateTime Formats, DTGetDateTime