Time in free form syntax -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Time in free form syntax
From: Justin Houchin <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:14:36 -0500
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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?

Justin Houchin
Programmer and Web Developer
ReliaTek, Inc
justin@reliatek.com

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