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12.3 Time-Stamps

Auto generated dates can be used to implement automatic timestamps. Consider for example a “Transfer” record set registering bank transfers. We want to save a timestamp every time a transfer is done, so we include an %auto for the date:

     %rec: Transfer
     %key: Id
     %type: Id int
     %type: Date date
     %auto: Id Date