TACL Reference Manual

Built-In Functions and Variables

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#CONTIME Built-In Function

Use #CONTIME to break down a three-word timestamp into a seven-number set of

date and time components.

timestamp

is a decimal number obtained from #TIMESTAMP or from #FILEINFO /

MODIFICATION /.

Result

#CONTIME returns seven numbers representing various components of date and time

(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, hundredths of a second), as shown in the

following examples.

Examples

1. Assuming #INFORMAT is set to TACL, this example illustrates the use of

#CONTIME with #TIMESTAMP:

14> #OUTPUT [#CONTIME [#TIMESTAMP]] 1992 06 27 9 28 16 16

2. This code shows how portions of a timestamp can be extracted and used to create

a file name that includes the month and day the file was created:

#PUSH date month list

#SETMANY _ month date, [#CONTIME [#TIMESTAMP]]

#CHARINSV date 1 month == Insert mm before dd in date

VARTOFILE list TEMP[date] == Output to a file named TEMPmmdd

If, for example, the date were June 10, this code would create a file named

TEMP0610.

#CONTIME timestamp