1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir *********************************************************************** 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textscalc01func_nowxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">NOW</title> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/scalc/01/func_now.xhp</filename> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150521"><bookmark_value>NOW function</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/SC_HID_FUNC_JETZT" id="bm_id3150532" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150521" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="47"><variable id="now"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_now.xhp">NOW</link> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148829" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="48"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_JETZT">Returns the computer system date and time.</ahelp> The value is updated when you recalculate the document or each time a cell value is modified.</paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146988" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="49">Syntax</paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="50">NOW()</paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id4598529" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">NOW is a function without arguments.</paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154205" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="51">Example</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150774" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="52"> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="input">=NOW()-A1</item> returns the difference between the date in A1 and now. Format the result as a number.</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 56