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>From the V5R1 reference

The first parameter is the value to be converted. If you do not specify a
value, %TIME returns the current system time.

Scott Mildenberger


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Houchin [mailto:justin@reliatek.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:15 AM
> To: RPG Midrange
> Subject: Time in free form syntax
>
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> Hi Everyone.
>             I have just started to code with free-form syntax and have
> run in to an issue with getting the current system time.
> Before I would
> use:
> D   CurrentTime               6S 0
> C   TIME                      CurrentTime
> But now I want to convert this to free-form. My IBM Manual
> says the TIME
> opcode is not allowed, use %DATE, %TIME, %TIMSTAMP. But all of these
> BIF's are to convert a character or numeric input to a date, time, or
> timestamp. They do not retrieve the current system time. Does anyone
> have a solution?
>


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