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# HourOfTheYear

**HourOfTheYear** returns the number of complete hours between the **TDateTime** value entered as **AValue**, and 12:00 A.M. of the first day of the year that includes **AValue**.

**Declaration**: Function HourOfTheYear(const AValue: TDateTime): Word;

A simple example follows.

```pascal
procedure ScriptEvent (var Value : variant);
var
  TheYear : word;
begin
 //YESTERDAY is 28-11-2023, so the result is 7944
  TheYear := HourOfTheYear(Yesterday);
  LogInfo('The number of hours since 1st Jan are '+IntToStr(TheYear));
end;
```