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Re: [Chicken-users] Current date/time?
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Matt Gushee |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Current date/time? |
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Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:34:57 -0700 |
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Thomas Chust wrote:
>> Is there a function that returns the current date/time? I've looked
>> carefully through the posix interface docs, and can't find it there; and
>> I see that Chicken doesn't support SRFI-19 (wouldn't that be a good
>> idea?). So, other the obvious kludge of calling the 'date' shell
>> command, what can I do?
> are you using a recent version of CHICKEN?
2.207.
> In my 2.212 build, the POSIX
> unit contains the necessary functions:
> * There is the current-seconds function in the library unit, which
> retrieves the current utime,
Oh, you're right. Of course, I opened up csi and tried a variety of
likely names: time, now, current-time, local-time ... just about
everything *except* current-seconds.
> * and in the POSIX unit you find seconds->local-time, seconds->utc-time,
> seconds->string and time->string.
Of course, those require a timestamp as an argument.
Thanks for the info.
--
Matt Gushee
The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/