While VB Timer functions is sufficiently precise for most tasks, it doesn’t provide the highest possible resolution most modern computer can provide. If your hardware supports high-resolution counters, you can
‘ add or subtract a number of business days from a date” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateAdd(ByVal days As Long, ByVal StartDate
‘ Evaluate the number of business days between two dates” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateDiff(ByVal StartDate As Date, ByVal EndDate As Date,
The GetTimeZoneInformation API returns a TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION variable that contains several pieces of information about system’s time date and time setting. The first Long value in this structure holds the “distance”
The Timer control is great when you want to periodically execute a piece of code while the program is doing something else. However, it also has a couple of shortcomings: