Yup!  Been there, wished for that.  Same reason, too - logging!

John


At 1/22/99 05:19 PM , Mark Bixby wrote:
>Has anybody else ever wished for an HPSECOND CI variable to go along with the
>current time-of-day variables HPHOUR and HPMINUTE?
>
>I have some CI scripts that append events to log files, but I'm forced to just
>use HH:MM for a timestamp because there's no seconds variable, and I'm
>too lazy to capture and parse :SHOWCLOCK output (the only CI command I know
>of to display seconds in a timestamp).
>
>If I was doing a SH script, I would simply do "TIME=`date +%H:%M:%S`" because
>it's so easy.  Sure, I could call DATE.HPBIN.SYS from a CI script, but I'd
>have to redirect it to a temporary file, read the file into a variable, then
>delete the file.  Tedious!
>
>It seems to me this would be a really easy CI enhancement, given that HPHOUR
>and HPMINUTE already exist.....
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