TACL Reference Manual

Built-In Functions and Variables

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#COMPUTETIMESTAMP Built-In Function

Use #COMPUTETIMESTAMP to convert a calendar date to a four-word timestamp.

year

is a four-digit number, from 1975 through 9999, representing the year.

month

is a number in the range 1 to 12 indicating the month.

day

is a number in the range 1 to 31 indicating the day.

hour

is a number in the range 0 to 23 indicating the hour.

min

is a number in the range 0 to 59 indicating the minute.

sec

is a number in the range 0 to 59 indicating the second.

milli

is a number in the range 0 to 999 indicating the millisecond.

micro

is a number in the range 0 to 999 indicating the microsecond.

Result

#COMPUTETIMESTAMP returns a space-separated list of nine numbers. The first

number is the four-word timestamp. If an error occurs, TACL sets the first number to -

1. The other eight numbers are error flags that indicate range errors in the arguments.

An error flag is 0 if its matching argument is within the range for the date/time element

it specifies, or -1 if it is outside the range.

Example

This example shows #COMPUTETIMESTAMP output:

29> #OUTPUT [#COMPUTETIMESTAMP 1992 3 31 15 37 50 273 146]

211568816270273146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

#COMPUTETIMESTAMP year month day hour min sec milli micro