DATETIME Function

Purpose

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

DATETIME()

DATETIME

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

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

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;

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

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