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Description:
Returns current time in human-readable yet purely numeric format, that format being YYYYMMDDHHMMSSLLL YYYY=4-digit year MM=2-digit month DD=2-digit day HH=2-digit hour (24 hour format) MM=2-digit minute SS=2-digt second LLL=3-digit milisecond This is useful when you want a string that will alpha-sort by date, or when you want an easy-to-read or at least easy-to-parse timestamp as part of a filename. For example, 20080227154829957 is February 27, 2008, at 3:48 pm and 29.957 milliseconds.

Return Values:
Numeric

Example:

Right now is #nowTimestamp()#

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Returns current time from year to milliscend in a purely numerical format.
 * 
 * @return Numeric 
 * @author Alan McCollough (amccollough@anmc.org) 
 * @version 1, April 25, 2008 
 */
function nowTimestamp() {
   return dateformat(now(),"yyyymmdd") & timeformat(now(),"HHmmssL");
}