Hello, Apologies if this question is too rudimentary, but I need to get the current data from the os. I cannot find a hansl comand or function to do this (maybe I am just being thick). The following works in Windows 7, but I do not have a linux or mac box to develop something other platforms. Would this be a handy thing to add? Maybe to the system bundle? <hansl> function string today() string cdate = $(Echo %date%) cdate = strstrip(strsub(cdate,"/"," ")) cdate = strsplit(cdate,4)~"-"~strsplit(cdate,2)~"-"~strsplit(cdate,3) return cdate end function </hansl> Output on Win 7 64 bit: gretl version 1.9.90 Current session: 2014-07-17 12:03 ? function string today() ? current_date = today() Replaced string current_date ? print current_date 2014-07-17