| Time.Date | Part of Time module |
| Syntax | Time.Date : string
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| Description | The Time.Date function returns the current date and time as a string. The returned string in the format "dd mmm yy hh:mm:ss", where mmm is the first 3 characters of the month, e.g., "Apr". For example, if the date is Christmas 1989 at 9:02:37 in the morning, Time.Date will return "25 Dec 89 09:02:37". Twenty-four hour time is used, so eleven thirty at night the same day would return "25 Dec 89 23:30:00"
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| Example | This program greets you and tells you the date and time.
var theDateTime, theDate, theTime : string
theDateTime := Time.Date
theDate := theDateTime (1 .. 9)
theTime := theDateTime (11 .. *)
put "Greetings!! The date and time today is ", Time.Date
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| Details | Be warned that on some computers, such as IBM PC compatibles or Apple Macintoshes, the date may not be set correctly in the operating system; in that case, the Time.Date procedure will give incorrect results. The string form of the date can be converted to a numeric form for comparison purposes using the Time.DateSec function. The numeric form can be converted to a string using the Time.SecDate function. The numeric form of the time can be obtained using the Time.Sec function.
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| Status | Exported qualified. This means that you can only call the function by calling Time.Date, not by calling Date.
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| See also | Time.Sec, Time.DateSec and Time.SecDate functions.
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