Chameleon uses its own DateTime object. The default member is an OLE datetime stamp that is called DateTime. The other members are SecondFraction and Zone that can be used to set the extended parts of a datetime as formatted in HL7.

To alter the formatting of dates and times in Chameleon, you will probably need to edit the DateTime formats within your message definition file. For more information, see Date Time Formats.

The following code fragment shows how a DateTime object can be manipulated:

Message.Patient(1).DOB.DateTime = Now ' The main default member
Message.Patient(1).DOB.SecondFraction = 0 ' no second fraction
Message.Patient(1).DOB.Zone = 5  ' +5 GMT