Timestamp$

timestamp$ returns a string value containing a time stamp, which is the number of milliseconds elapsed since the first of January 1970, at 00:00:00 time GMT.

Syntax

  timestamp$

Example

  Local decimal D
  Local Decimal T : # Cannot be an integer because timestamp value is greater the 2^32
  Local Integer T1
  Local Char MY_TIME(8)
  T=val(timestamp$)
  T1=mod(T,3600*24*1000)/1000 : # modulo the number of milliseconds in a day
  MY_TIME=format$("N0:2",int(T1/3600))+":"+format$("N0:2",int(mod(T1,3600)/60))+":"+format$("N0:2",mod(T1,60))
  # Now, MY_TIME contains the GMT hour in hh:mm:ss format

Description

timestamp$ returns a timestamp in ASCII format.

Associated errors

No error associated.

See also

time$, datetime$, date$, gdatetime$.