Getting the system date as a NUMBER

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody,

I want to know if there's any method to get the system date and convert it as a Number, or just getting the system date's year as a number.

Thanks!!

[vranoch]

I implemented this through user defined functions - I found some suitable date-manipulation library and exposed selected functions to the CLIPS language.

Vranoch

[Anonymous]

And could you write it in this forum?? cause i'm going to lose my mind thinking about it!! :S

Thanksss

[Gary Riley]

If you're running on unix, you can do the following:

CLIPS> 
(deffunction get-date ()
   (system "date > date.out")
   (open "date.out" date "r")
   (bind ?v (readline date))
   (close date)
   (explode$ ?v))
CLIPS> (get-date)
(Fri Apr 13 10:56:13 CDT 2012)
CLIPS>