Clock

Last Updated On 2021-07-16

Non-visible component that provides the instant in time using the internal clock on the phone. It can fire a timer at regularly set intervals and perform time calculations, manipulations, and conversions.

Methods to convert an instant to text are also available. Acceptable patterns are empty string, MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm:ss a, or MMM d, yyyyHH:mm. The empty string will provide the default format, which is "MMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss a" for FormatDateTime "MMM d, yyyy" for FormatDate. To see all possible format, please see here.

Properties

You can set the below properties in the UI part of the builder.

TimerAlwaysFires - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
TimerEnabled - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
TimerInterval - it's a non negative integer value which is set to 1000 by default.

Block Properties

You can set the below blocks properties in the blocks section of the builder.

TimerAlwaysFires

Will fire even when application is not showing on the screen if true

TimerEnabled

Fires timer if true

TimerInterval

Interval between timer events in ms

Methods

You can set the below method blocks in the blocks section of the builder.

AddDays

Returns an instant in time some days after the given instant.

AddDuration

Returns an instant in time some duration after the argument

AddHours

Returns an instant in time some hours after the given instant.

AddMinutes

Returns an instant in time some minutes after the given instant.

AddMonths

Returns an instant in time some months after the given instant.

AddSeconds

Returns an instant in time some seconds after the given instant.

AddWeeks

Returns An instant in time some weeks after the given instant.

AddYears

Returns an instant in time some years after the given instant.

DayOfMonth

Returns the day of the month (1-31) from the instant.

Duration

Returns duration, which is milliseconds elapsed between instants.

DurationToDays

Converts the duration to the number of days.

DurationToHours

Converts the duration to the number of hours.

DurationToMinutes

Converts the duration to the number of minutes.

DurationToSeconds

Converts the duration to the number of seconds.

DurationToWeeks

Converts the duration to the number of weeks.

FormatDate

Text representing the date of an instant in the specified pattern

FormatDateTime

Returns text representing the date and time of an instant in the specified pattern

FormatTime

Text representing the time of an instant

GetMillis

Returns the instant in time measured as milliseconds since 1970.

Hour

Returns the hour of the day (0-23) from the instant.

MakeDate

Returns an instant in time specified by year, month, date in UTC. Valid values for the month field are 1-12 and 1-31 for the day field.

MakeInstant

Returns an instant in time specified by MM/dd/YYYY hh:mm:ss or MM/dd/YYYY or hh:mm.

MakeInstantFromMillis

Returns an instant in time specified by the milliseconds since 1970 in UTC.

MakeInstantFromParts

Returns an instant in time specified by year, month, date, hour, minute, second in UTC.

MakeTime

Returns an instant in time specified by hour, minute, second in UTC.

Minute

Returns the minute of the hour (0-59) from the instant.

Month

Returns the month of the year represented as a number from 1 to 12).

MonthName

Returns the name of the month from the instant, e.g., January, February, March...

Now

Returns the current instant in time read from phone's clock.

Second

Returns the second of the minute (0-59) from the instant.

SystemTime

Returns the phone's internal time.

Weekday

Returns the day of the week represented as a number from 1 (Sunday) to 7 (Saturday).

WeekdayName

Returns the name of the day of the week from the instant.

Year

The year

Events

You can set the below event blocks in the blocks section of the builder.

Timer

The Timer event runs when the timer has gone off.