The WHEN-COMPILED function returns the date and time the compilation unit was compiled as provided by the system on which the compilation unit was compiled.
FUNCTION WHEN-COMPILED
The character positions returned, numbered from left to right, are:
Character Contents
Positions
1-4 Four numeric digits of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
5-6 Two numeric digits of the month of the year, in the range
01 through 12.
7-8 Two numeric digits of the day of the month, in the range
01 through 31.
9-10 Two numeric digits of the hours past midnight, in the range
00 through 23.
11-12 Two numeric digits of the minutes past the hour, in the range
00 through 59.
13-14 Two numeric characters of the seconds past the minute in the range
00 through 59.
15-16 Two numeric digits of the hundredths of a second past the second,
in the range 00 through 99.
17 Either the character ' ', the character '+', or the character '0'.
The character ' ' is returned if the local time indicated in the
previous character positions is behind Coordinated Universal Time.
The character '+' is returned if the local time indicated is
the same as or ahead of Coordinated Universal time.
18-19 If character position 17 is ' ', two numeric digits are returned
in the range 00 through 12 indicating the number of hours that
the local time is behind Coordinated Universal Time.
If character position 17 is '+', two numeric digits are returned
in the range 00 through 13 indicating the number of hours that
the local time is ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
20-21 Two numeric digits are returned in the range 00 through 59
indicating the number of additional minutes that the local time
is ahead of or behind Coordinated Universal Time, depending
on whether character position 17 is '+' or ' ', respectively.