Playing with datetime...

Hi,

Setting the date, manually, in Alert 2 to todays date, why does Alert 1 return a different value than Alert 2? Even using TimeLocal() as opposed to TimeCurrent() yields the same returns.

#property indicator_chart_window



int start()

{

datetime x=TimeYear(TimeCurrent());

datetime y=TimeMonth(TimeCurrent());

datetime z=TimeDay(TimeCurrent());

Alert("-----------------------------");

Alert("1: ", D'x.y.z 23:59:00');

Alert("2: ", D'2007.6.28 23:59:00');

Alert("3: ", x);

Alert("4: ", y);

Alert("5: ", z);

}

What am I doing wrong?

Regards, lucidlamp

You're defining dates using literals (like D'2007.6.28 23:59:00') and you can't use variables inside of literals.

Try setting alert1 using the StrToTime(...) function, it should work much better.

tesla, thank you.
lucidlamp