Returns the current system time as either a string or as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970.

param—If present and nonzero, causes the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 to be returned as a double-precision floating-point value. Otherwise, a scalar string containing the current date/time in standard system format is returned.

result—Either a value representing the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 or a string containing the time in the standard system time format.

None.

; Calculate number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970.

t1 = SYSTIME(1)

; Calculate the current date/time in standard system format.

t2 = SYSTIME(0)

PRINT, t1, t2

; PV-WAVE prints: 6.9248465e+08 Wed Dec 11 13:48:33 1991

For information on other ways that PV‑WAVE can handle dates and times, see the PV‑WAVE User’s Guide.