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Sun Studio 12: Fortran Library Reference

1.4.10 fdate: Return Date and Time in an ASCII String

The subroutine or function is called by:

call fdate( string )

string

character*24

Output 

or:

CHARACTER fdate*24

string = fdate()

If used as a function, the calling routine must define the type and size of fdate.

Return value 

character*24

Output 

Example 1: fdate as a subroutine:


       character*24 string
       call fdate( string )
       write(*,*) string
       end

Output:


 Wed Aug  3 15:30:23 1994

Example 2: fdate as a function, same output:


       character*24 fdate
       write(*,*)  fdate()
       end

See also: ctime(3), time(3F), and idate(3F).