DATETIME Function

Purpose

Returns a character string that represents the system date and time of day.

Syntax

DATETIME()

or 

DATETIME

The second form can be used only when DATETIME has been declared with the BUILTIN attribute.

Description

The DATE function returns a character string of length 17 that represents the system date in the form yyyymmddhhmmssttt, where:

String Range Represents
yyyy      0000–9999     year
mm 01–12 month
dd 01–31 day
hh 00–23 hour
mm 00–59 minute
ss 00–59 second
ttt 000–999 millisecond

You may also define the LPI_YEAR environment variable to return any year value you want (such as 2009).

If you are using Bourne shell, do this: 

LPI_YEAR=2009;
export LPI_YEAR

If you are using C-shell, do this: 

setenv LPI_YEAR 2009;

Examples

DATETIME()  /* returned '19940526163111585' on May 26, 
                   1994 at 11.585 seconds after 4:31 PM */

Restrictions

None.

Parent topic: Open PL/I Built-ins