TIMESTAMP
Print a Timestamp

TIMESTAMP is a FORTRAN77 library which prints the current YMDHMS date (year-month-day-hours-minutes-seconds) as a timestamp.

This is useful when documenting the run of a program. By including a timestamp, the output of the program will always contain a clear indication of when it was created. Other indicators, such as the file modification timestamp, may be misleading or subject to unintentional modification.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TIMESTAMP is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a JAVA version and a Julia version and a Mathematica version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

TIMER, a FORTRAN77 program which illustrates how the execution of a program can be timed.

WTIME, a FORTRAN77 library which returns a reading of the wall clock time in seconds.

Source Code:

• timestamp.f, a FORTRAN77 version of the source code.
• timestamp.sh, commands to compile the source code.

Examples and Tests:

• timestamp_prb.f, a sample calling program.
• timestamp_prb.sh, commands to compile, link and run the sample calling program.
• timestamp_prb_output.txt, the output file.

List of Routines:

• TIMESTAMP prints out the current YMDHMS date as a timestamp.
• TIMESTRING writes the current YMDHMS date into a string.

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