The dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp() system function retrieves the current system time and date as a timestamp in twenty-digit format ("yyyyMMddHHmmssffffff").
The precision of the this function is limited to the precision of the timer in the runtime environment. For example, Java™ environments return the current timestamp to the nearest millisecond, so the most precise timestamp available in a Java environment will have 17 significant digits and three trailing zeros, such as 20070101142020123000.
dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp( ) returns (result TIMESTAMP("yyyyMMddHHmmssffffff"))
myTime1 DATE = currentTimestamp(); writeStdOut(myTime1); myTime2 TIME = currentTimestamp(); writeStdOut(myTime2); writeStdOut(currentTimestamp());
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