SECOND Function (VisioShapeSheet)

Returns an integer, 0 to 59, that represents the seconds component of datetime or expression.

Syntax

SECOND("datetime"|expression[,lcid])

Parameters

Name

Required/Optional

Data Type

Description

datetime

Required

String

Any string commonly recognized as a date and time or a reference to a cell containing a date and time.

expression

Required

String

Any expression that yields a date and time.

lcid

Optional

Numeric

The locale identifier to be used in evaluating a nonlocal datetime. The locale identifier is a number described in the system header files.

Return Value

Integer

Remarks

The date component in datetime or expression is discarded.

No rounding is done. If datetime is missing or cannot be converted to a valid result, this function returns an error.

The SECOND function also accepts a single number value for expression where the decimal portion of the result represents the fraction of a day since midnight.

Example 1

SECOND("05/30/1997 13:45:32")

Returns 32.

Example 2

SECOND(TIMEVALUE("May 30, 1996 12:07:45") + 7 es.)

Returns 52.

Example 3

SECOND(0.6337)

Returns 32.