date

NAME

date - date-time functions.

FUNCTIONS

• date::timestamp VARIABLE - return current time in seconds since UNIX epoch

• date::current_datetime VARIABLE FORMAT - return current date time in given format. See man 3 strftime for details.

• date::print_current_datetime FORMAT - print current date time in given format. See man 3 strftime for details.

• date::datetime VARIABLE FORMAT TIMESTAMP - return current date time in given format. See man 3 strftime for details.

• date::print_elapsed_time - print value of SECONDS variable in human readable form: “Elapsed time: 0 days 00:00:00.” It’s useful to know time of execution of a long script, so here is function for that. Assign 0 to SECONDS variable to reset counter.