DosGetDateTime

This call gets the current date and time maintained by the operating system.

DosGetDateTime

(DateTime)

DateTime (PDATETIME) - output

Address of the date and time structure:

hours (UCHAR)

Current hour.
minutes (UCHAR)
Current minute.
seconds (UCHAR)
Current second.
hundredths (UCHAR)
Current hundredth of a second.
day (UCHAR)
Current day.
month (UCHAR)
Current month.
year (USHORT)
Current year.
timezone (SHORT)
Minutes west of UTC (Universal Time Coordinate).
weekday (UCHAR)
Current day of the week. Sunday is 0.
rc (USHORT) - return
Return code description is:
• NO_ERROR
Remarks

The dayofweek value is based on Sunday equal to zero. The value of timezone is the difference in minutes between the current time zone and UTC. This number is positive if it is earlier than UTC and negative if it is later than UTC. For Eastern Standard Time, this value is 300 (5 hours earlier than UTC).

If the application is executing in the OS/2 environment, it is more efficient to obtain these variables by calling DosGetInfoSeg instead of this function. However, applications written to the family API cannot depend on the availability of DosGetInfoSeg.

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