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Returns the current time when called without arguments, or a time representing the date and time specified by the given table. This table must have fields year, month, and day, and may have fields hour, min, sec, and isdst (for a description of these fields, see the os.date function). | Returns the current time when called without arguments, or a time representing the date and time specified by the given table. This table must have fields year, month, and day, and may have fields hour, min, sec, and isdst (for a description of these fields, see the os.date function). | ||
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Revision as of 14:30, 13 July 2023
Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: os
Description
Returns the current time when called without arguments, or a time representing the date and time specified by the given table. This table must have fields year, month, and day, and may have fields hour, min, sec, and isdst (for a description of these fields, see the os.date function). <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (number) = os.time(table) </source>
The returned value is a number, whose meaning depends on your system. In POSIX, Windows, and some other systems, this number counts the number of seconds since some given start time (the "epoch": 1 January 1970, 00:00:00). In other systems, the meaning is not specified, and the number returned by time can be used only as an argument to date and difftime
Parameters
table: (table) table representing a date time optional
Return values
Returns (number) time in seconds
