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TIBCO Rendezvous® 8.8.0

# Get DateTime

Convenience Method

## Declaration

    TibrvStatus getDateTime(
        const char*          fieldName,
        TibrvMsgDateTime&    value,
        tibrv_u16            fieldId=0);

## Purpose

Get the value of a field as an datetime value.

## Remarks

This convenience method retrieves a field and extracts its data.

Since it is not possible to convert any other datatype to a datetime value, the field must already contain a datetime. Otherwise, the method returns TIBRV_CONVERSION_FAILED.

Pointer data extracted from the field remain valid until the message is destroyed; that is, even removing the field or updating the field’s value does not invalidate pointer data.

This method produces values that are read-only snapshots of the field data (see Pointer Snapshot). Programs must not modify the datetime value.

Parameter | Description
`fieldName` | Get a field with this name.
`value` | The program supplies a variable in this parameter, and the method stores the field value in that variable.
`fieldId` | Get the field with this identifier. Zero is a special value that signifies no field identifier. All non-zero field identifiers must be unique within each message.

## Example

This example code extracts a datetime value from a message field, and converts it to a `time_t` value. Programs can adapt this code as appropriate. (For corresponding code to convert a `time_t` value to a datetime value, and add the datetime to a message field, see the example at Add DateTime.)

    #include <limits.h>
    TibrvStatus getAsTimeT(
           TibrvMsg& msg,
           const char* field,
           time_t& value)
    {
        TibrvMsgDateTime d;
        TibrvStatus error;
        error = msg.getDateTime(field,d);
        if (error != TIBRV_OK)
          return error;
        if (d.sec > INT_MAX || d.sec < INT_MIN)
          return TIBRV_CONVERSION_FAILED;
        value = (time_t)d.sec;
    }

## See Also

Validity of Data Extracted From Message Fields

Field Names and Field Identifiers

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