(VBScript) Date/Time Expires Within N Seconds/Minutes/Hours/Days

Demonstrates the how to tell if a date/time is within N seconds, minutes, hours, or days of the current system time.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.CkDateTime")
set dt = CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")

' Set to the current system date/time.
success = dt.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
outFile.WriteLine("Now: " & dt.GetAsTimestamp(1))

' Add 10 minutes, making the date 10 minutes in the future.
success = dt.AddSeconds(600)
outFile.WriteLine("10 minutes from now: " & dt.GetAsTimestamp(1))

' Is the date/time within 10 seconds of expiration (i.e. within 10 seconds of now)?
b = dt.ExpiresWithin(10,"seconds")
outFile.WriteLine("Expires within 10 seconds: " & b)

' Does the date/time expire within 5 minutes?
b = dt.ExpiresWithin(5,"minutes")
outFile.WriteLine("Expires within 5 minutes: " & b)

' Does the date/time expire within 15 minutes?
b = dt.ExpiresWithin(15,"minutes")
outFile.WriteLine("Expires within 15 minutes: " & b)

' Does the date/time expire within 1 hour?
b = dt.ExpiresWithin(1,"hour")
outFile.WriteLine("Expires within 1 hour: " & b)

' Does the date/time expire within 1 day?
b = dt.ExpiresWithin(1,"day")
outFile.WriteLine("Expires within 1 day: " & b)

' Output:

' 	Now: 2017-05-05T23:48:00-0500
' 	10 minutes from now: 2017-05-05T23:58:00-0500
' 	Expires within 10 seconds: False
' 	Expires within 5 minutes: False
' 	Expires within 15 minutes: True
' 	Expires within 1 hour: True
' 	Expires within 1 day: True

outFile.Close