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Hi Paula
You've probably got a million replies by now <g> - try the TIME op-code, this is
from the RPG Reference Guide:
4.4.97 TIME (Time of Day)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Result ¦
¦
¦ Code ¦ Factor 1 ¦ Factor 2 ¦ Field ¦
Indicators ¦
+-----------+------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------¦
¦ TIME ¦ ¦ ¦ Target ¦ ¦ ¦
¦
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ field ¦ ¦ ¦
¦
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The TIME operation accesses the system time of day and/or the system date at any
time during program processing. The system time is based on
the 24-hour clock.
The Result field can specify one of the following into which the time of day or
the time of day and the system date are written:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
¦ Result Field ¦ Value Returned ¦ Format ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ 6-digit Numeric ¦ Time ¦ hhmmss ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ 12-digit Numeric ¦ Time and Date ¦ hhmmssDDDDDD ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ 14-digit Numeric ¦ Time and Date ¦ hhmmssDDDDDDDD ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ Time ¦ Time ¦ Format of Result ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ Date ¦ Date ¦ Format of Result ¦
+-----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------¦
¦ Timestamp ¦ Timestamp ¦ *ISO ¦
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
If the Result field is a numeric field, to access the time of day only, specify
the result field as a 6-digit numeric field. To access both the time of
day and the system date, specify the result field as a 12- (2-digit year
portion) or 14-digit (4-digit year portion) numeric field. The time of day is
always placed in the first six positions of the result field in the following
format:
hhmmss (hh=hours, mm=minutes, and ss=seconds)
If the Result field is a numeric field, then if the system date is included, it
is placed in positions 7 through 12 or 7 through 14 of the result field. The
date format depends on the date format job attribute DATFMT and can be mmddyy,
ddmmyy, yymmdd, or Julian. The Julian format for 2-digit year
portion contains the year in positions 7 and 8, the day (1 through 366,
right-adjusted, with zeros in the unused high-order positions) in positions 9
through 11, and 0 in position 12. For 4-digit year portion, it contains the year
in positions 7 through 10, the day (1 through 366, right-adjusted,
with zeros in the unused high-order positions) in positions 11 through 13, and 0
in position 14.
If the Result field is a Timestamp field, the last 3 digits in the microseconds
part is always 000.
Note: The special fields UDATE and *DATE contain the job date. These values are
not updated when midnight is passed, or when the job date is
changed during the running of the program.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
¦
¦
¦ D Timeres S T TIMFMT(*EUR)
¦
¦ D Dateres S D DATFMT(*USA)
¦
¦ D Tstmpres S Z
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¦ *...1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7...+....
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¦ CL0N01Factor1+++++++Opcode(E)+Factor2+++++++Result++++++++Len++D+HiLoEq....
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¦ *
¦ * When the TIME operation is processed (with a 6-digit numeric
¦
¦ * field), the current time (in the form hhmmss) is placed in the
¦
¦ * result field CLOCK. The TIME operation is based on the 24-hour
¦
¦ * clock, for example, 132710. (In the 12-hour time system, 132710
¦
¦ * is 1:27:10 p.m.)
¦
¦ C TIME Clock 6 0
¦
¦ * When the TIME operation is processed (with a 12-digit numeric
¦
¦ * field), the current time and day is placed in the result field
¦
¦ * TIMSTP. The first 6 digits are the time, and the last 6 digits
¦
¦ * are the date; for example, 093315121579 is 9:33:15 a.m. on
¦
¦ * December 15, 1979.
¦
¦ C TIME TimStp 12 0
¦
¦ C MOVEL TimStp Time 6 0
¦
¦ C MOVE TimStp SysDat 6 0
¦
¦ * This example duplicates the 12-digit example above but uses a
¦
¦ * 14-digit field. The first 6 digits are the time, and the last
¦
¦ * 8 digits are the date; for example, 13120001101992
¦
¦ * is 1:12:00 p.m. on January 10, 1992.
¦
¦ C TIME TimStp 14 0
¦
¦ C MOVEL TimStp Time 6 0
¦
¦ C MOVE TimStp SysDat 8 0
¦
¦ * When the TIME operation is processed with a date field,
¦
¦ * the current date is placed in the result field DATERES.
¦
¦ * It will have the format of the date field. In this case
¦
¦ * it would be in *USA format ie: D'mm/dd/yyyy'.
¦
¦ C TIME Dateres
¦
¦ * When the TIME operation is processed with a time field,
¦
¦ * the current time is placed in the result field TIMERES.
¦
¦ * It will have the format of the time field. In this case
¦
¦ * it would be in *EUR format ie: T'hh.mm.ss'.
¦
¦ C TIME Timeres
¦
¦ * When the TIME operation is processed with a timestamp field,
¦
¦ * the current timestamp is placed in the result field TSTMPRES.
¦
¦ * It will be in *ISO format.
¦
¦ * ie: Z'yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss.mmmmmm'
¦
¦ C TIME Tstmpres
¦
¦
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Hope this helps
Paul Archer
PS - Welcome to the 'club'
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