Date in Aspect

[wilsonza]

I'm trying to write the script so I don't need a different (other language) to provide the date How do I get a date in Procomm with a mm/dd/yy format?

 

[MatthewPeters]

I'm not aware of a "Format Date" function in Aspect. What I would do is get the date/time, then extract each part of the date and then format the date the way I want it. Here's a simple example:

lDate = $LTIME
lTimeInts lDate iYear iMonth iDay iHr iMin iSec
strfmt sDate "%i/%i/%i" iMonth iDay iYear

 

[hankm3]

Wilson,

If all you want is the Date in a MM/DD/YY Format, then use the $DATE Function.

string aDate
aDate = $DATE
termwrites aDate
termwrites "`n`r"

Hank

 

[hankm3]

Wilson,

Try this. Modified from the Help Pages.

proc main
integer Month, Day ; Integers to contain date and
integer Year, Hour ; time converted from long
integer Min, Sec ; Min and Sec.
;string MonStr ; String to contain month.

; Convert long time value into it's counter parts, year,
; month, day, hour, min, and sec.

ltimeints $LTIME Year Month Day Hour Min Sec

;monthstr Month MonStr ; Get the month in string format.

usermsg "IT's: %02d %d %d At: %d:%d" Month Day Year Hour Min

endproc

You May want to change the user message so that the Day Variable is printed before the Month Variable.

Hank

 

[gambino]

try this one it gives the date of today.....i hope it's helpfull for you

#define DEBUG ; #Define this macro if debugging
proc main
string today

today = $DATE
#ifdef DEBUG ; If debugging, display message
usermsg "`"The returned date was %s`"" today
#endif
endproc