Explain Now function in QTP.

Now function is a date and time related function in QTP.

You can use this function to get the current system time stamp.


print now

This will print something like 02-08-2013 12:39:05 depending upon your system's date and time.

You can use now function as a parameter in other date time functions  to extract current year, month, day, hour, second, minute etc.

For Example -

To extract year , Use below code.
print year(now)


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