date
date — gets
the OS date and time; translates seconds into
dates.
Syntax
date (seconds?, is_utc?)
Arguments
- seconds
- A number of seconds, such as returned
from a call to
clock.
- is_utc
- A
value of t puts
the date in Coordinated Universal Time (formerly known as
Greenwich Mean Time, GMT).
Returns
The date as a character string.
Description
This function returns a character string which represents
the current date and time in human-readable form. This
form depends on the operating system, but will look
like "Sat Mar 21 15:58:27 2000" on most UNIX systems. The
seconds parameter returns
the date that corresponds to the number of seconds since
Jan 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time.
Example
Gamma> date();
"Fri Mar 31 09:18:27 2000"
Gamma> date(987654321);
"Thu Apr 19 00:25:21 2001"
Gamma> date(987654321,t);
"Thu Apr 19 04:25:21 2001"
Gamma> date(0,t);
"Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970"
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