class Tm

Provides a time object with which information can be gathered

Description

Do not create instances of this class directly, use Sys.localtime(), Sys.gmtime(), or Sys.strfptime()

class attributes [NB. Highlighted attributes are static members]
function mktime() - Get the time time in long format
function asctime() - Get the time as a string
function strftime() - Generate a string from the time based upon formating supplied

Functions

function mktime Click to go up to the list
Get the time time in long format
Declaration:
    native function mktime( )
Returns:
    The time represented as a long

function asctime Click to go up to the list
Get the time as a string
Declaration:
    native function asctime( )
Description:
The string returned is in the form of "Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993\n"
Returns:
    The time represented as a string

function strftime Click to go up to the list
Generate a string from the time based upon formating supplied
Declaration:
    native function strftime( string fmt )
Description:
The format is a string with the following delimiters in it:

%a The abbreviated weekday name according to the cur­ rent locale.

%A The full weekday name according to the current locale.

%b The abbreviated month name according to the current locale.

%B The full month name according to the current locale.

%c The preferred date and time representation for the current locale.

%C The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer. (SU)

%d The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).

%D Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Yecch - for Americans only. Americans should note that in other coun­ tries %d/%m/%y is rather common. This means that in international context this format is ambiguous and should not be used.) (SU)

%e Like %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space. (SU)

%E Modifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)

%F Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format). (C99)

%G The ISO 8601 year with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week num­ ber (see %V). This has the same format and value as %y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (TZ)

%g Like %G, but without century, i.e., with a 2-digit year (00-99). (TZ)

%h Equivalent to %b. (SU)

%H The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23).

%I The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12).

%j The day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366).

%k The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to 23); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.) (TZ)

%l The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to 12); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.) (TZ)

%m The month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).

%M The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).

%n A newline character. (SU)

%O Modifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)

%p Either AM' or PM' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale. Noon is treated as pm' and midnight as am'.

%P Like %p but in lowercase: am' or pm' or a corre­ sponding string for the current locale. (GNU)

%r The time in a.m. or p.m. notation. In the POSIX locale this is equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p'. (SU)

%R The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). (SU) For a version including the seconds, see %T below.

%s The number of seconds since the Epoch, i.e., since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. (TZ)

%S The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61).

%t A tab character. (SU)

%T The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S). (SU)

%u The day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday being 1. See also %w. (SU)

%U The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of week 01. See also %V and %W.

%V The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week. See also %U and %W. (SU)

%w The day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday being 0. See also %u.

%W The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first day of week 01.

%x The preferred date representation for the current locale without the time.

%X The preferred time representation for the current locale without the date.

%y The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99).

%Y The year as a decimal number including the century.

%z The time-zone as hour offset from GMT. Required to emit RFC822-conformant dates (using "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"). (GNU)

%Z The time zone or name or abbreviation.

%+ The date and time in date(1) format. (TZ)

%% A literal %' character.
Parameters:
    Parameter #1: string fmt - The format of the time
Returns:
    The string

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