TODAY()

Advantage Concepts

Advantage Expression Engine function that returns the system date as a date value

Syntax

Today() à dSystemDate

Remarks

Today() provides a means of retrieving the current date within the expression, comparing other date values to the current date, and performing date arithmetic relative to the current date.

The display format for dates is controlled by the current date format setting. The default format is mm/dd/yy.

Note Today() is the same as the Date() function in CA-Clipper, but DATE is a reserved word in CA-Visual Objects.

Note Advantage Expression Engine functions can be used in expressions such as record filter expressions and index expressions. They are not necessarily scalars supported within SQL statements. For a list of supported SQL scalar functions, see Supported Scalar Functions.

Example

These examples show Today() used in various ways:

? Today()     //

09/19/93

? Today() + 30    // 10/19/93

? Today() - 30    // 08/20/93

See Also

CTOD()

DTOC()

DTOS()

Advantage TDataSet Descendant

DateFormat

Advantage Client Engine API

AdsSetDateFormat