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D System Variables
DATE
Quick Reference
See also:
■ Obtain General Drawing Information
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Stores the current date and time in Modified Julian Date format.
This value is represented as a Modified Julian Date (MJD), which is the Julian
day number and decimal fraction of a day in the format:
<Julian day number>.<Decimal fraction of a day>
The Modified Julian Date, conventionally called UT1, is a worldwide scientific
standard that assigns day numbers beginning at an essentially arbitrary date
and time of 12:00 a.m. on 1 January 4713 B.C. (B.C.E.). With this system, 4 July
1997 at 2:29:58 p.m. corresponds to 2450634.60387736, and 1 January 1998 at
12:00 noon corresponds to 2450815.50000000.
You can compute differences in date and time by subtracting the numbers
returned by DATE. To extract the seconds since midnight from the value returned
by DATE, use AutoLISP expressions:
(setq s (getvar "DATE"))
(setq seconds (* 86400.0 (- s (fix s))))
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