HOUR

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HOUR

Returns the hour of the day when the current transaction started based on the local machine’s time zone in which the Execution Environment is running. (F)

Invocation

time = HOUR

time

On return, contains the hour. Its syntax is C (fixed-length character string) with length 2.

Usage Notes

The returned value is a string containing the number of the hour (00-23).

Example

The following rule determines the hour and prints it to the message log:

RULE EDITOR ===>

HOUR_1;

_ LOCAL TIME;

_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

_ ------------------------------------------------------------+-----------

_ TIME = HOUR; | 1

_ CALL MSGLOG('THIS TRANSACTION WAS STARTED AFTER ' || TIME | 2

_ || ':00.'); |

_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Output for the HOUR_1 Rule:

Pressing PF2 after executing this rule displays the following on the screen:

----------------------- INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE LOG --------------------

COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> P

THIS TRANSACTION WAS STARTED AFTER 13:00.