Tom:

I am looking for a function which returns the current time or date,

is there

one built in, if so, what do I put after the USES?

There is a built-in function, GetTimeStamp, which returns the current date and time (in a record variable of type TimeStamp). You don't need to include a special unit, like in Borland Pascal.

The procedure is described in the documentation. Alternatively, try the program below which demonstrates the use of GetTimeStamp.

Another possibility (instead of GetTimeStamp) is the BPcompat package at the GPC homepage which provides most of the Borland procedures that are not in GPC (yet).

Regards,

Jesper Lund

program TimeDemo;

var dt : TimeStamp;

begin GetTimeStamp (dt);

with dt do begin Writeln ('Date: ', month, '/', day, '/', year, ' ', 'Time: ', hour, ':', minute); end; end.