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  3. December 2007

RE: getting system date and system time

From: Barbara Morris

Join the ribbon campaign to stamp(!) out the use of %date + %time when
they represent a timestamp.

This is actually a historical problem in the programming world, but there is
a workaround for those languages that don't have a true timestamp. In
meta-language, it's like this:

Do
wDate = %date;
wTime = %time;
until (wDate = %date);

It's a little extra overhead, but it's guaranteed to work. I'll leave the
proof of this as an exercise to the reader <grin>.

Joe


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