NAME
- daytime: text, filet, gmt, local, now, string2tm, time, tm2epoch - time conversions
SYNOPSIS
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include "daytime.m"; daytime := load Daytime Daytime->PATH; Tm: adt { sec: int; # seconds (0 to 59) min: int; # minutes (0 to 59) hour: int; # hours (0 to 23) mday: int; # day of the month (1 to 31) mon: int; # month (0 to 11) year: int; # year-1900; 2000AD is 100 wday: int; # day of week (0 to 6, Sunday is 0) yday: int; # day of year (0 to 365) zone: string; # time zone name tzoff: int; # time zone offset (seconds from GMT) }; text: fn(tm: ref Tm): string; filet: fn(now, t: int): string; gmt: fn(tim: int): ref Tm; local: fn(tim: int): ref Tm; now: fn(): int; time: fn(): string; tm2epoch: fn(tm: ref Tm): int; string2tm: fn(date: string): ref Tm; DESCRIPTION
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These routines perform time conversions relative to the
epoch 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970.
Note the range of values for each member of the
Tm
adt.
The conventions are the same as those of C's
ctime.
Text converts a time structure referenced by tm from local or GMT time to a string in the format:
- Sat Jan 1 13:00:00 GMT 2000
Filet converts the file access or modification time t from seconds since the epoch to local time as a string in the format:
- Jan 1 13:00
if the file is less than 6 months old or
- Jan 1 2000
if the file is older than 6 months, compared to the time now.
Gmt converts seconds since the epoch, received in tim, to a time structure in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Local converts seconds since the epoch, received in tim, to a time structure in local time.
Now returns the time in seconds since the epoch, obtained by reading /dev/time (see cons(3)).
Time converts seconds since the epoch to the local time as a string in the format Fri May 19 17:01:36 BST 2000.
Tm2epoch converts a time structure referenced by tm from local or GMT time to seconds since the epoch.
String2tm returns a reference to a Tm value corresponding to the date and time in textual form in string s, which must have one of the forms below:
Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT (RFC822, RFC1123) Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT (RFC850) Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 GMT 1994 (output of text , above)
A missing time zone in any format is assumed to be GMT. String2tm returns nil if s is not correctly formed.
SOURCE
- /appl/lib/daytime.b
SEE ALSO
- cons(3), sys-millisec(2)
BUGS
- The sign bit of a Limbo integer holding a time will turn on 68 years from the epoch.
| DAYTIME(2) | Rev: Tue Jan 29 13:11:44 GMT 2008 |