&ZUDATEn

A set of system variables that return the user's date, in different formats, time zone adjusted.

Use:&ZUDATE1 to &ZUDATE17 (excluding &ZUDATE15) are system variables that supply the current user's date, adjusted by time zone, in a variety of formats:

&ZUDATE1—date as YY.DDD
&ZUDATE2—date as DAY DD-MON-YYYY
&ZUDATE3—date as DD-MON-YYYY
&ZUDATE4—date as DD/MM/YY
&ZUDATE5—date as MM/DD/YY
&ZUDATE6—date as YY/MM/DD
&ZUDATE7—date as YYMMDD
&ZUDATE8—date as YYYYMMDD
&ZUDATE9—date as nnnnnn
&ZUDATE10—date as YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ
&ZUDATE11—date as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.FFFFFFZ
&ZUDATE12—date as DD/MM/YYYY
&ZUDATE13—date as YYYY/MM/DD
&ZUDATE14—date as MM/DD/YYYY
&ZUDATE16—date as YYYY.DDD
&ZUDATE17—date as YYYYDDD

where:

DAY

The day of the week as follows:

MON Monday
TU Tuesday
WED Wednesday
THU Thursday
FRI Friday
SAT Saturday
SUN Sunday

DD

The day of the month as a 2-digit number

DDD

The Julian day within the year as a 3-digit number

MM

The month of the year as a 2-digit number

MON

The month of the year as follows:

JAN January
FEB February
MAR March
APR April
MAY May
JUN June
JUL July
AUG August
SEP September
OCT October
NOV November
DEC December

nnnnnn

The number of days from 1 January 0001 with no leading zeros

YYYY

The current year as a 4-digit number

YY

The current year as a 2-digit number

Z

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

FFFFFF

The time accurate to 10^-6

Example: &ZUDATE3

&FILEDATE = &ZUDATE3

Note: Use of &ZUDATE11 should be avoided, to reduce unnecessary overhead, if microsecond accuracy is not required. Each access to &ZUDATE11 causes the system to refetch and synchronize time with the operating system, to format the result to microsecond accuracy.