DAYTIME(2) DAYTIME(2) NAME daytime: text, filet, gmt, local, now, time, tm2epoch - time conversions SYNOPSIS include "daytime.m"; daytime := load Daytime Daytime->PATH; Tm: adt { sec: int; # seconds (0 to 59) min: int; # minutes (0 to 59) hour: int; # hours (0 to 23) mday: int; # day of the month (1 to 31) mon: int; # month (0 to 11) year: int; # year-1900; 2000AD is 100 wday: int; # day of week (0 to 6, Sunday is 0) yday: int; # day of year (0 to 365) zone: string; # time zone name tzoff: int; # time zone offset (seconds from GMT) }; text: fn(tm: ref Tm): string; filet: fn(now, t: int): string; gmt: fn(tim: int): ref Tm; local: fn(tim: int): ref Tm; now: fn(): int; time: fn(): string; tm2epoch: fn(tm: ref Tm): int; DESCRIPTION These routines perform time conversions relative to the epoch 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970. Note the range of values for each member of the Tm adt. The conventions are the same as those of C's ctime. Text converts a time structure referenced by tm from local or GMT time to a string in the format: Sat Jan 1 13:00:00 GMT 2000. Filet converts the file access or modification time t from seconds since the epoch to local time as a string in the format: Jan 1 13:00 if the file is less than 6 months old or Jan 1 2000 Page 1 Plan 9 (printed 11/18/24) DAYTIME(2) DAYTIME(2) if the file is older than 6 months, compared to the time now. Gmt converts seconds since the epoch, received in tim, to a time structure in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Local converts seconds since the epoch, received in tim, to a time structure in local time. Now returns the time in seconds since the epoch, which it obtains by reading /dev/time (see cons(3)) to get the time in microseconds since the epoch. Time converts seconds since the epoch to the local time as a string in the format Fri May 19 17:01:36 BST 2000. Tm2epoch converts a time structure referenced by tm from local or GMT time to seconds since the epoch. SOURCE /appl/lib/daytime.b SEE ALSO cons(3), sys-millisec(2) BUGS The sign bit of a Limbo integer holding a time will turn on 68 years from the epoch. Page 2 Plan 9 (printed 11/18/24)