DATE_AND_TIME

Intrinsic Subroutine: Returns character data on the real-time clock and date in a form compatible with the representations defined in Standard ISO 8601:1988.

Syntax

CALL DATE_AND_TIME ( [date] [, time] [, zone] [, values] )

date
(Optional; output) Must be scalar and of type default character; its length must be at least 8 to contain the complete value. Its leftmost 8 characters are set to a value of the form CCYYMMDD, where:

CC	Is the century
YY	Is the year within the century
MM	Is the month within the year
DD	Is the day within the month

time
(Optional; output) Must be scalar and of type default character; its length must be at least 10 to contain the complete value. Its leftmost 10 characters are set to a value of the form hhmmss.sss, where:

hh	Is the hour of the day
mm	Is the minutes of the hour
ss.sss	Is the seconds and milliseconds of the minute

zone
(Optional; output) Must be scalar and of type default character; its length must be at least 5 to contain the complete value. Its leftmost 5 characters are set to a value of the form hhmm, where hh and mm are the time difference with respect to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in hours and parts of an hour expressed in minutes, respectively.

UTC (also known as Greenwich Mean Time) is defined by CCIR Recommendation 460-2.

values
(Optional; output) Must be of type default integer. One-dimensional array with size of at least 8. The values returned in values are as follows:

values (1)	The 4-digit year
values (2)	The month of the year
values (3)	The day of the month
values (4)	The time difference with respect to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in minutes
values (5)	The hour of the day (range 0 to 23) - local time
values (6)	The minutes of the hour (range 0 to 59) - local time
values (7)	The seconds of the minute (range 0 to 59) - local time
values (8)	The milliseconds of the second (range 0 to 999) - local time

Compatibility

CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB

See Also: GETDAT, GETTIM, IDATE, FDATE, TIME, ITIME, RTC, CLOCK

Example

Consider the following example executed on 2000 March 28 at 11:04:14.5:

  INTEGER DATE_TIME (8)
  CHARACTER (LEN = 12) REAL_CLOCK (3)
  CALL DATE_AND_TIME (REAL_CLOCK (1), REAL_CLOCK (2), &
                      REAL_CLOCK (3), DATE_TIME)

This assigns the value "20000328" to REAL_CLOCK (1), the value "110414.500" to REAL_CLOCK (2), and the value "-0500" to REAL_CLOCK (3). The following values are assigned to DATE_TIME: 2000, 3, 28, -300, 11, 4, 14, and 500.

The following shows another example:

CHARACTER(10) t
CHARACTER(5) z
CALL DATE_AND_TIME(TIME = t, ZONE = z)