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Re: Retrieving and formatting current time in RPGLE

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Walden H. Leverich wrote:

> I have a need to retrieve the current time (seconds, not milliseconds) and
> format it thus:
>
> Wed, 12 Dev 2001 13:21:01 -0500
>
> That is the format for date-time as described in RFC2822. I can retrieve the
> current date/time using the unix APIs, but I'd still have to format the
> bloody thing. I'm hoping I'm either 1) missing an api, or 2) someone has
> written a generic date/time formatting routing they'd care to share.

I don't know if the unix date() API is available?  If so then you should
be able to use to get the date in whatever format you want.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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