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seconds-from-dateTime( )
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seconds-from-dateTime( ) — converts an XML Schema xs:dateTime into a number of seconds

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Defined in: XForms 1.0
Parameters: string dateTime (required)
Return type: number

This function computes a signed fractional number of seconds relative to an epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, and is useful when two xs:dateTimes need to be compared.

This example returns the large number of seconds representing the current date and time: 

seconds-from-dateTime(now())
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