<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>dbtimestamp</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="pi-common.html" title="Part 4. Common Processing Instruction Reference"><link rel="prev" href="dbchoice_choice.html" title="dbchoice_choice"><link rel="next" href="dbtex_delims.html" title="dbtex_delims"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dbtimestamp</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbchoice_choice.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part 4. Common Processing Instruction Reference</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbtex_delims.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="dbtimestamp"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>dbtimestamp</h2><p>dbtimestamp — Inserts a date timestamp</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="synopsis"><code class="sgmltag-xmlpi"><?dbtimestamp format="<em class="replaceable"><code>formatstring</code></em>" [padding="0"|"1"]?></code></pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e33062"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Use the <code class="sgmltag-xmlpi"><?dbtimestamp?></code> PI at any point in a source document to cause a date timestamp (a formatted string representing the current date and time) to be inserted in output of the document.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e33070"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">format="<em class="replaceable"><code>formatstring</code></em>"</span></dt><dd><p>Specifies format in which the date and time are output</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>For details of the content of the format string, see <a class="link" href="Datetime.html" target="_top">Date and time</a>.</p></div></dd><dt><span class="term">padding="0"|"1"</span></dt><dd><p>Specifies padding behavior; if non-zero, padding is is added</p></dd></dl></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbchoice_choice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="pi-common.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbtex_delims.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dbchoice_choice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dbtex_delims</td></tr></table></div></body></html>