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SNOBOL4TIME(1)         DragonFly General Commands Manual        SNOBOL4TIME(1)


NAME

       snobol4time - SNOBOL4 time functions


SYNOPSIS

       -INCLUDE 'time.sno'


DESCRIPTION

       The GETTIMEOFDAY() function returns a DATA() object of type TIMEVAL
       with members TV_SEC (seconds since 1/1/1970 GMT) and TV_USEC
       (microseconds since start of day).

       LOCALTIME(sec) takes seconds since 1/1/1970, and returns a DATA()
       object of type TM with members:

       TM_SEC    seconds since start of local minute (0 to 60)

       TM_MIN    minutes since start of local hour (0 to 59)

       TM_HOUR   hours since start of local day (0 to 23)

       TM_MDAY   day of month (1 to 31)

       TM_MON    month of year (0 to 11)

       TM_YEAR   year minus 1900

       TM_WDAY   day of week (sunday = 0)

       TM_YDAY   day of year (0 to 365)

       TM_ISDST  is non-zero if summer time in effect at that time

       TM_GMTOFF offset from UTC in seconds (or -1 if not available)

       GMTIME(sec) converts seconds to a TM object, but without any local time
       zone adjustments.

       MKTIME(tm) converts a TM object to seconds since 1/1/1970.

       SLEEP(fp_sec) suspends program execution for a number of (floating
       point) seconds.  Not all platforms may support sleep, or sleep for
       fractional seconds.  Sleep resolution may vary between platforms.
       Returns failure if the system indicated the sleep time was less than
       the requested time.

       STRFTIME(format,tm) formats the date information in tm according to the
       format string.  Consult your local strftime(3) manual page (or C
       runtime manual) for more details.

       STRPTIME(str,format) parses a string using using the supplied format
       and returns a TM object with the parsed elements filled in.  Consult
       your local strptime(3) manual page (or C runtime manual) for more
       details.


SEE ALSO

       snobol4(1), ctime(3), strftime(3), strptime(3)


AUTHOR

       Philip L. Budne

SNOBOL                            29 Dec 2011                   SNOBOL4TIME(1)

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