date

Date:

10-12-2011

NAME

DATE, JDATE - Return the current date

SYNOPSIS

DATE()
JDATE()

IMPLEMENTATION

Cray Linux Environment (CLE)

STANDARDS

Fortran extension

DESCRIPTION

DATE and JDATE return the current date. DATE returns the current date in ASCII mm/dd/yy format. JDATE returns the current Julian day-number facsimile in ASCII yyddd format, left-justified and blank-filled.

If called as intrinsic functions, DATE and JDATE do not accept any arguments. The names of these intrinsics cannot be passed as arguments.

NOTES

The DATE and JDATE intrinsic functions are outmoded. Refer to the Cray Fortran Reference Manual for information on outmoded features and their preferred standard alternatives.

For both DATE and JDATE, the year became 0 in the year 2000.