The problem is that when you go to retrieve that value, it will always return the current date. What #DEFINE does is a global LITERAL replace of COMPILE_DATE with DTOC(DATE() or DATETIME(). The constant does not get replaced with the evaluation of the function when compiled.

Something like the following does work for me:

#DEFINE CURRENT_FOLDER SYS(5) + SYS(2003)

because it will always return the currently selected folder at runtime instead of the folder the app was in when I compiled it. This is because SYS(5) + SYS(2003) is a literal replacement of every occurrence of CURRENT_FOLDER instead of what SYS(5) + SYS(2003) evaluated to at compile time.

>Just tested it: It worked for me in an EXE made up of a PRG with that as the first line. Hmmmm......
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>>I would like to create a constant that represents the date a program was compiled on.
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>>The following does NOT work:
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>>#DEFINE COMPILE_DATE DTOC(DATE())
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>>Can it be done?
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>>TIA,