1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03030301xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Date Statement [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030301.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T11:20:05">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="date"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156027"><bookmark_value>Date statement</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156027" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030301.xhp" name="Date Statement [Runtime]">Date Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147291" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the current system date as a string, or resets the date. The date format depends on your local system settings.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148686" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146794" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Date ; Date = Text As String</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 53<emph>Text:</emph> Only required in order to reset the system date. In this case, the string expression must correspond to the date format defined in your local settings.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151212" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Sub ExampleDate</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">msgbox "The date is " & Date</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145174" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">end sub</paragraph> 58</body> 59</helpdocument> 60