The following program makes use of an API routine to retrieve the current date and time.
special-names.
call-convention 74 is winapi.
working-storage section.
01 pp procedure-pointer.
01 system-time.
03 system-year pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-month pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-day-of-week pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-day pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-hour pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-minute pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-second pic 9(4) comp-5.
03 system-millisecond pic 9(4) comp-5.
procedure division.
set pp to entry "kernel32"
call winapi "GetSystemTime" using
by reference system-time
display "Day of week is: " system-day-of-week
display "Day of month is: " system-day
stop run.