HOROLOG Variable

Material prepared from M Programming Book [WALTERS1997]

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Command

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$HOROLOG

Description

$HOROLOG (or $H) returns a string value with the number of days since December 31st, 1840, followed by the number of seconds since midnight of the current day, with the the values separated by a comma. The seconds value begins at midnight with zero (seconds), and increments through the course of the day by 1 for each second past midnight. At midnight, the days value is incremented by one, and the seconds value is reset to 0. The $HOROLOG string cannot be changed with the SET command.

Example

GTM>WRITE $HOROLOG

Produces 62493,61616 at 5:06:56 PM on February 6, 2012.