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Data Manipulation Language Statements › #GETIME—gets time and date from the operating system › #GETIME Example

#GETIME Example

The following example of the #GETIME statement obtains the time from the operating system into the variable field TIMECK and the Julian date is returned in register 1. The time is in an 11-byte edited format; the Julian date is in packed decimal format.

#GETIME FORMAT=(EDIT,TIMECK)