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Govind Jujare
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I am trying to print current Timestamp of the server in my report. Is there any way
to get the Timestamp with Timezone information included (For ex., PST) ? I prefer to
do it in Dialog Manager if possible. I tried &MDYY, &DMYY ... etc but they dont have
Timezone.

TIA,


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Prarie
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This will get you the day and time
DT/HMDYYIA = HGETC(8, 'HMDYYIA');

IBI has the following example to play with for
Time Zone.

DEFINE FILE CAR
NEW1/A8 WITH CAR=HHMMSS('A8');
NEW2/I2=EDIT(EDIT(NEW1,'99$$$$$$'));
NEW3/A6=EDIT(NEW1,'$$999999');
NEW4/I2=NEW2 - 1;
NEW5/A2=EDIT(NEW4);
NEW6/A8=NEW5||NEW3;
NEW7/I2=NEW2 - 2;
NEW8/A2=EDIT(NEW7);
NEW9/A8=NEW8||NEW3;
NEW10/I2=NEW2 - 3;
NEW11/A2=EDIT(NEW10);
NEW12/A8=NEW11||NEW3;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"EASTERN TIME IS: "CENTRAL TIME IS: "MOUNTAIN TIME IS: "PACIFIC TIME IS: PRINT CAR NOPRINT
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


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Francis Mariani
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That previous example unfortunately does not tell you what time zone the server is set to.

If your WebFOCUS server is on Windows, you may want to read this article:

http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/timezone.html


Francis


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Govind Jujare
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Thx for the replies. I am on Solaris. I decided to go with a INCLUDE file. I created a cron job to create this include file.

Main file:
-INCLUDE app/timezone.fex

Crontab entry:
  
00 01 * * * /apps/opt/webfocus/ibi/apps/proj01/crtz.sh >> /tmp/webfocus_cron.log 2>&1

Cron script (crtz.sh):
  
#!/usr/bin/ksh
export timezonestr=$(/usr/xpg4/bin/date '+%Z')
echo "-SET &vTimeZone='$timezonestr'" > /apps/opt/webfocus/ibi/WebFOCUS53/basedir/proj01/app/timezone.fex

Generated Include file (timezone.fex):
  
-SET &vTimeZone='PST'


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