Os.time
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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.
(number) = os.time(table)
table fields:
- year
- month
- day
- hour optional
- min optional
- sec optional
- isdst optional
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
Example
local myt = os.time({year=2003, month=7, day=14, hour=8})
print(myt)
See also
