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NOW - Global variable to get the current system timestamp
Synopsis
${NOW}
Description
The NOW global variable dynamically generates a current system timestamp. This can be used to generate object names, file names, and database entities that are related the current system time.
The format of the timestamp is
YYYYMMDD-hhmmss
where
- YYYY is the year (1970-2038)
- MM is the month of the year (01-12)
- DD is the day of the month (01-31)
- hh is the hour of the day (00-23)
- mm is the minute of the hour (00-59)
- ss is the second of the minute (00-59)
The timestamp is given only as UTC.
Example
The following code defines a class test with a random variable x. The name of the object is based on the timestamp.
class test {
random x;
}
object test {
name test-${NOW};
x "type:normal(0,1); refresh:1min";
}
Version
The timestamp variable was introduced in Hassayampa (Version 3.0).