Mqldatetime - MQL4

MqlDateTime Structure

Overview

The MqlDateTime structure is used to represent date and time values in MQL4. It contains eight integer fields.

Fields

year: Integer representing the year.

mon: Integer representing the month (1-12).

day: Integer representing the day of the month (1-31).

hour: Integer representing the hour (0-23).

min: Integer representing the minute (0-59).

sec: Integer representing the second (0-59).

day_of_week: Integer representing the day of the week. 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, ..., 6 for Saturday.

day_of_year: Integer representing the day number of the year. January 1st is assigned the value 0.

Constraints and Notes

The day_of_year value may differ between leap years and non-leap years starting from March.

Related Functions

TimeToStruct(): Converts a datetime value to an MqlDateTime structure.

Example

void OnStart()
{
   datetime date1 = D'2008.03.01';
   datetime date2 = D'2009.03.01';
   MqlDateTime str1, str2;
   TimeToStruct(date1, str1);
   TimeToStruct(date2, str2);   printf("%02d.%02d.%4d, day of year = %d", str1.day, str1.mon, str1.year, str1.day_of_year);
   printf("%02d.%02d.%4d, day of year = %d", str2.day, str2.mon, str2.year, str2.day_of_year);
}
/* Result:
   01.03.2008, day of year = 60
   01.03.2009, day of year = 59
*/