Calculating 5-byte system time

I have a need to calculate a 5 byte system time from an arbitrary string.

I know that SYS “OS_ConvertStandardDateAndTime” will convert a standard 5 byte system time to a string.

But how do I do it the other way in a Basic program?

The string format for 10:05pm on 28th Jan is “20200128220500”

My existing software ‘cheats’ by noting the 5 byte value at midnight each day – but that only works if the program is running at midnight!

I don’t think there’s a string-to-time conversion SWI which allows you to specify a custom format string (the closest is Territory_ConvertTimeStringToOrdinals, which only accepts a handful of formats)

However, since you appear to be dealing with a very straightforward numerals-only format, you could quite easily write some code which pulls apart the string and stores the values in an ordinals block which can then be used with Territory_ConvertOrdinalsToTime to convert to 5-byte time.

Thank You.

I will try that.

Excellent: That is now working

Thank You, again.