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Calculate the approximate number of hours between two DateTime values.
Source position: dateutil.inc line 275
| function HourSpan( | 
| const ANow: TDateTime; | 
| const AThen: TDateTime | 
| ):Double; | 
| ANow | 
 | First moment in time | 
| AThen | 
 | Second moment in time | 
Number (fractions included) of hours between ANow and AThen
HourSpan returns the number of Hours between ANow and AThen, including any fractional parts of a Hour.
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Program Example67; { This program demonstrates the HourSpan function } Uses SysUtils,DateUtils; Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime); begin Write('Number of hours between '); Write(DateTimeToStr(AThen),' and ',DateTimeToStr(ANow)); Writeln(' : ',HourSpan(ANow,AThen)); end; Var D1,D2 : TDateTime; Begin D1:=Now; D2:=D1-(59*OneMinute); Test(D1,D2); D2:=D1-(61*OneMinute); Test(D1,D2); D2:=D1-(122*OneMinute); Test(D1,D2); D2:=D1-(306*OneMinute); Test(D1,D2); D2:=D1-(5.4*OneHour); Test(D1,D2); D2:=D1-(2.5*OneHour); Test(D1,D2); End.