$Sir_DateND

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Current date as number of days

Note: Many $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent of $Sir_DateND is CurrentTimeDays.

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

Syntax

%num = $Sir_DateND

Syntax terms

%num	This numeric variable is set to the number of days from `1 Jan 1900` to the current date.

Usage notes

$Sir_DateND has no error conditions.
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.

Example

The following fragment will print the date one week from the current date:

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

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