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 get system date

get system date

Description

Return the current system date of the test machine.

Arguments

• year

  Variable to hold returned year portion of the date (format: YYYY).

• month

  Variable to hold returned month portion of date (format: numeric with no leading zero).

• day

  Variable to hold returned day-of-month portion of date (format: numeric with no leading zero).

• weekday

  Variable to hold day-of-week portion of date (format: full name of day, e.g., Monday, Tuesday, etc.).

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

• The returned values of the get system date action are not affected by the built-in setting date format.
• The date expression, # fd(today()), may be used to get the current date from the host machine.
• If the variables in argumentsyear, month, day or weekdayhave not been declared, the action creates them as globals.
• For each of year, month, day and weekday, if the argument is left empty, a variable with the same name as the argument header is created to hold the return value.
• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.

Applicable Built-In Settings

The following settings are applicable to this action: remove double quotes from cells.

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