Re: st: Current date and time listed in output

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On May 27, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Robert A Yaffee wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can get the current date and time to be  
> reported in the output of an rclass program that one has written?   
> What is the function for reporting the current date and time at  
> which the program was run on Stata?

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for.  If you are writing a  
program and want to display and/or return the time at which the  
program is executed, you can use the following:


program foo, rclass
    return local datetime = "`c(current_date)' `c(current_time)'"
    di as text return(datetime)
    // rest of program
end


which produces


. foo
27 May 2006 21:24:26

. ret li

macros:
          r(datetime) : "27 May 2006 21:24:26"


-- Phil

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