Re: [Chicken-users] Current date & time?

[Matt Gushee]

Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:

> > course every good log entry needs a timestamp ... so I searched for a
> > function to get the current date and/or time, and it doesn't seem to
> > exist. Can that be true?
>
> Take a look at
> http://chicken.wiki.br/man/4/Unit%20posix#date-and-time-routines
>
> Example:
>
>     csi> (use posix)
>     csi> (seconds->string (current-seconds))
>     "Thu May 28 10:53:38 2009"

Ah, thank you. I had used that before, but then took a long break from 
Chicken and forgot the name of the function.

But where is current-seconds defined? I expected to find it in the posix 
unit, but if it is there, it is missing from the current (4.0) manual.

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