Date Service

Create and utilise dates

Assignment - creating a date

To use the date service to create a new date, use the Active Variable assign statement syntax as shown below:

var = ${date:"\[calendar\]/key"}

Where:

• var is the name of the variable to create
• date is the name of the service
• calendar is an optional calendar to use defaulting to daily
• key is the key which defines what date to assign to the variable

The following assignment keys are available (case-insensitive):

Key	Description
now	The current day and time
today or {empty}	The current backwards aligned day using the supplied calendar
yesterday	The day prior to today according to the supplied calendar
tomorrow	The day after today according to the supplied calendar
named, e.g. monday	The next or current named day
ISO Date	The supplied parsed absolute date i.e. doesn’t use the supplied calendar
ISO Date Time	The supplied parsed absolute date time
Period Code	The start date of the supplied period code

note

All dates in OpenDataDSL are stored in the UTC timezone