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<section begin="desc" />Current date as number of days<section end="desc" />

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateND function is to be entered.


The $Sir_DateND function has no arguments and returns the number of days since 1 January, 1900.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" /> %num = $Sir_DateND <section end="syntax" />

$Sir_DateND Function

where

%num set to the number of days from 1 Jan 1900 to the current date.


For example, the following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:

PRINT $Sir_ND2Date($Sir_DateND + 7, 'Wkday DAY Month YYYY')


$Sir_DateND has no error conditions.

Notes:

  • Values returned by $Sir_DateND can be represented in a 4-byte BINARY field, if you choose to do so.
  • To obtain the current date and time in a readable form, use $Sir_Date.
  • To convert the number of days to a readable form, use $Sir_ND2Date.

Products authorizing $Sir_DateND