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<h3 class="section">8.80 <code>FDATE</code> — Get the current time as a string</h3>
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<dt><em>Description</em>:<dd><code>FDATE(DATE)</code> returns the current date (using the same format as
<code>CTIME</code>) in <var>DATE</var>. It is equivalent to <code>CALL CTIME(DATE,
TIME())</code>.
<p>This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however,
only one form can be used in any given program unit.
<br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>GNU extension
<br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Subroutine, function
<br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd>
<p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="80%"><code>CALL FDATE(DATE)</code>.
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="80%"><code>DATE = FDATE()</code>.
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<br><dt><em>Arguments</em>:<dd>
<p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>DATE</var></td><td valign="top" width="70%">The type shall be of type <code>CHARACTER</code> of the
default kind. It is an <code>INTENT(OUT)</code> argument. If the length of
this variable is too short for the date and time string to fit
completely, it will be blank on procedure return.
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<br><dt><em>Return value</em>:<dd>The current date and time as a string.
<br><dt><em>Example</em>:<dd>
<pre class="smallexample"> program test_fdate
integer(8) :: i, j
character(len=30) :: date
call fdate(date)
print *, 'Program started on ', date
do i = 1, 100000000 ! Just a delay
j = i * i - i
end do
call fdate(date)
print *, 'Program ended on ', date
end program test_fdate
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<br><dt><em>See also</em>:<dd><a href="DATE_005fAND_005fTIME.html#DATE_005fAND_005fTIME">DATE_AND_TIME</a>, <a href="CTIME.html#CTIME">CTIME</a>
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