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Re: Querying Current Time

• Posted by Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.HYPERMART.NET> Mar 31, 1999
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:32:40 PST, Phillip Croft <tarl_cabot00 at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>How do I query the computer for the current time, and store it in a
>variable?  I just need to know the query function.
>-Phil
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I shamelessly pilfered this from library.doc ;-]

Syntax:      s = date()

 Description: Return a sequence with the following information:

                           { year,  -- since 1900
                            month,  -- January = 1
                              day,  -- day of month, starting at 1
                             hour,  -- 0 to 23
                           minute,  -- 0 to 59
                           second,  -- 0 to 59
                  day of the week,  -- Sunday = 1
                  day of the year}  -- January 1st = 1

 Example:
              sequence now

              now = date()
              -- now has: {95,3,24,23,47,38,6,83}
              -- i.e. Friday March 24, 1995 at 11:47:38pm, day 83 of the
year


 Comments:    The value returned for the year is actually the number of
years
              since 1900 (not the last 2 digits of the year). In the year
2000
              this value will be 100. In 2001 it will be 101, etc.

 See Also:    time

to get just the time, you could then say:

sequence hhmmss
hhmmss = now[4] & now[5] & now[6]