Vista - Using time conditions in vbs?

Hello,
Vista doesn't handle durations properly in the task scheduler, so I'm
interested in building a time condition right into my vbscript file.
Basically, here's what I need:

If time of day is between 8:00AM and 5:00PM Then
continue processing script
Else
end script
End If

Does anyone know how to write this in vbs?

Thanks!

"D.P. Roberts" <dproberts@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OgyxQIxXJHA.2444@xxxxxxThis should get you started:
If Hour(Now()) >= 8 And Hour(Now()) < 17

That is exactly what I needed - thank you!

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:urLSZ$0XJHA.5312@xxxxxxI too need to understand time and it's possibilities in VBScript. Is it
possible to do date/time arithmetic in VBScript? I need to take the
difference between 2 times and come up with the number of seconds that have
passed, is this possible?

thanks.

Chip

Chip Orange wrote on 18 dec 2008 in microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript:
DateDiff(interval, date1, date2 [,firstdayofweek[, firstweekofyear]])


Arguments
interval
Required. String expression that is the interval you want to use to
calculate the differences between date1 and date2. See Settings section
for values.

date1, date2
Required. Date expressions. Two dates you want to use in the calculation.

firstdayofweek
Optional. Constant that specifies the day of the week. If not specified,
Sunday is assumed. See Settings section for values.

firstweekofyear
Optional. Constant that specifies the first week of the year. If not
specified, the first week is assumed to be the week in which January 1
occurs. See Settings section for values.

Settings
The interval argument can have the following values:

Setting Description
yyyy
Year

q
Quarter

m
Month

y
Day of year

d
Day

w
Weekday

ww
Week of year

h
Hour

n
Minute

s
Second



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"Chip Orange" <Chip.Orange@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O1dl6sJYJHA.2620@xxxxxxI recommend that you download the file script56.chm from the Microsoft site.
It explains all of these basic VB Script functions.

There is also a similar DateAdd function. Check the VBScript help files. To
assign a date literal, enclose in "#" characters. For example:

dtmStart = #Dec 18, 2008 10:00 AM#
dtmEnd = DateAdd("d", dtmStart, 20)
Wscript.Echo dtmStart
Wscript.Echo dtmEnd
lngSeconds = DateDiff("s", dtmStart, dtmEnd)
Wscript.Echo CStr(lngSeconds)

dtmStart = #Dec 18, 2008 10:00 AM#
dtmEnd = #Jan 3, 2009 02:00 PM#
lngSeconds = DateDiff("s", dtmStart, dtmEnd)
Wscript.Echo CStr(lngSeconds)

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"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23AcD11JYJHA.4772@xxxxxxThank you to everyone who answered.

I do have script56, but it wasn't clear to me (I don't remember where I was
reading), if DateDiff would return only days or would do time arithmetic and
return seconds.

I'm coming from visual foxpro, which has a date and a date/time variable
type, and can do arithmetic in either set of units returning the result
based on the types used in the expression.

thanks again,



Chip

Thanks again,

Chip