$Time

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Function

Returns the current time of day in the format specified.

Syntax

$TIME(time-format,'first-delimiter', 'second-delimiter')

Where

Argument Value Specifies Default value
time-format 1 Returns the time of day as hhdmmdss (d=delimiter) 1
  2 Returns the time of day as hhdmmdssdttt (d=delimiter)  
first-delimiter 1 character only Character to place between time units HH, MM, and SS : (colon)
second-delimiter 1 character only, second-delimiter Character to place between time units SS and TTT . (period)

The second-delimiter applies only if time-format is 2. You must enclose the delimiters with single quotation marks.

You can suppress either the first-delimiter or second-delimiter character by using a single quoted null string.

Examples

$TIME(argument) Returns...
$TIME HH:MM:SS
$TIME(1) HH:MM:SS
$TIME(1,'-') HH-MM-SS
$TIME(1,' ') HH MM SS
$TIME(1,) HHMMSS
$TIME(2) HH:MM:SS.TTT
$TIME(2,'-') HH-MM-SS.TTT
$TIME(2,,) HHMMSSTTT