1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03030301xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Date Statement [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030301.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="date"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156027"> 34<bookmark_value>Date statement</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156027" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030301.xhp" name="Date Statement [Runtime]">Date Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147291" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the current system date as a string, or resets the date. The date format depends on your local system settings.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148686" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146794" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" >Date ; Date = Text As String</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><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> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151212" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleDate</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox "The date is " & Date</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145174" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 47</body> 48</helpdocument> 49