ns_time(3)

ns_time3

Commands

Usage

ns_fmttime time ?format string?

ns_gmtime

ns_localtime

ns_time


    


    


    

Overview

ns_time: Returns the value of time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970. This return value is suitable as input to the ns_httptime function to get the current time.

ns_fmttime: Formats the time string,time,according to the format provided in format string. If no format is provided, defaults to "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y".

ns_gmttime: Returns a Tcl list of the pieces of the current Greenwich Mean Time. The pieces are
seconds (0-59)
minutes (0-59)
hours (0-23)
dayofmonth (1-31)
monthofyear (0-11)
year (year-1900)*
dayofweek (Sunday=0)
dayofyear (0-365)
1 if Daylight Savings Time is in effect

ns_localtime: Returns a Tcl list of the pieces of the current local time. The pieces are
seconds (0-59)
minutes (0-59)
hours (0-23)
dayofmonth (1-31)
monthofyear (0-11)
year (year-1900)*
dayofweek (Sunday=0)
dayofyear (0-365)
1 if Daylight Savings Time is in effect

Examples

ns_fmttime [ns_time] returns: Tue Nov 12 15:14:47 2002 ns_fmttime [ns_time] "%Y%m%d" returns: 20021112

Keywords

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–4.0

From aolserver4 4.0.10-7 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.