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- # gettimeofday --- get the time of day in a usable format
- # Arnold Robbins, arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Public Domain, May 1993
- #
- # Returns a string in the format of output of date(1)
- # Populates the array argument time with individual values:
- # time["second"] -- seconds (0 - 59)
- # time["minute"] -- minutes (0 - 59)
- # time["hour"] -- hours (0 - 23)
- # time["althour"] -- hours (0 - 12)
- # time["monthday"] -- day of month (1 - 31)
- # time["month"] -- month of year (1 - 12)
- # time["monthname"] -- name of the month
- # time["shortmonth"] -- short name of the month
- # time["year"] -- year within century (0 - 99)
- # time["fullyear"] -- year with century (19xx or 20xx)
- # time["weekday"] -- day of week (Sunday = 0)
- # time["altweekday"] -- day of week (Monday = 0)
- # time["weeknum"] -- week number, Sunday first day
- # time["altweeknum"] -- week number, Monday first day
- # time["dayname"] -- name of weekday
- # time["shortdayname"] -- short name of weekday
- # time["yearday"] -- day of year (0 - 365)
- # time["timezone"] -- abbreviation of timezone name
- # time["ampm"] -- AM or PM designation
-
- function gettimeofday(time, ret, now, i)
- {
- # get time once, avoids unnecessary system calls
- now = systime()
-
- # return date(1)-style output
- ret = strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y", now)
-
- # clear out target array
- for (i in time)
- delete time[i]
-
- # fill in values, force numeric values to be
- # numeric by adding 0
- time["second"] = strftime("%S", now) + 0
- time["minute"] = strftime("%M", now) + 0
- time["hour"] = strftime("%H", now) + 0
- time["althour"] = strftime("%I", now) + 0
- time["monthday"] = strftime("%d", now) + 0
- time["month"] = strftime("%m", now) + 0
- time["monthname"] = strftime("%B", now)
- time["shortmonth"] = strftime("%b", now)
- time["year"] = strftime("%y", now) + 0
- time["fullyear"] = strftime("%Y", now) + 0
- time["weekday"] = strftime("%w", now) + 0
- time["altweekday"] = strftime("%u", now) + 0
- time["dayname"] = strftime("%A", now)
- time["shortdayname"] = strftime("%a", now)
- time["yearday"] = strftime("%j", now) + 0
- time["timezone"] = strftime("%Z", now)
- time["ampm"] = strftime("%p", now)
- time["weeknum"] = strftime("%U", now) + 0
- time["altweeknum"] = strftime("%W", now) + 0
-
- return ret
- }
-