Retrieve the Current Date and Time

OOo Basic has functions to determine the current date and time: Date, Time, and Now (described in Table 2 ). The Date and Time functions return a string with the current date and time, respectively. The strings are formatted based on the current locale (Tools Options Language Settings Language; and then set the locale). The Now command returns a Date object that contains both the current date and the current time.

Table 2: Date and time functions in OOo Basic.

Function	Description
Date	Return the current date as a String.
Now	Return the current date and time as a Date object.
Time	Return the current time as a String.

Note  

Now returns a Date object, which internally is stored as a Double. The functions Date and Time both return a String.

Printing the date and time is easy.

 Print Date Print Time 

Compatibility  

In Visual Basic, Date$ and Time$ return a String and value, but Date and Time return numerical-based types suitable for mathematical operations. OOo Basic supports all four functions, but they all return a String.

The Date and Time functions are documented to set the system date and time. This is not currently supported.

 Date = 12/25/2003 Time = 22:14:03 

Bug  

As of OOo 1.1.0, setting the date and time does nothing.