$Sir Date

Get current datetime

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_Date is CurrentTimeString.

This function accepts an optional datetime format string and an optional error control string, and returns the current date and time as a character string with the specified format.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" /> %odate = $Sir_Date(fmt, errctl) <section end="syntax" />

$Sir_Date Function

where

fmt	optional datetime format string, defaults to 'YY-MM-DD'. Refer to for an explanation of valid datetime formats and valid datetime values.
errctl	optional error control string, refer to .
%odate	set to contain the current date and time, in the format specified by fmt.

For example, the following fragment prints a value such as .Monday, 1 January 2001 AT 01:11:10 PM.

PRINT $Sir_Date('Wkday, DAY Month YYYY' WITH ' "A"T HH:MI:SS AM')

Error conditions are shown in the following figure (see the discussion in ).

• fmt is not a valid datetime format.

$Sir_Date returns the null string in the following error cases:

• Sirius functions
• Fast/Unload User Language Interface
• Janus Open Client
• Janus Open Server
• Janus Sockets
• Janus Web Server
• Japanese functions
• Sir2000 Field Migration Facility
• Sir2000 User Language Tools

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