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Date
date_add
pub fun date_add(add: Text, date: Text = "", utc: Bool = false): Text ?
EXPERIMENTAL
Adds a value to a date.
If no date is specified, the current date is used.
Example : date_add("+3 days")
You can use (+/-):
- years
- months
- days
- hours
- minutes
- seconds
date_compare
pub fun date_compare(date_a: Text, date_b: Text = "", utc: Bool = false): Num ?
EXPERIMENTAL
Compares two dates.
Returns 1 if date_a is after date_b.
Returns 0 if date_a and date_b is the same.
Returns -1 if date_b is after date_a.
If date_b is not provided, current date will be used.
date_posix
pub fun date_posix(format: Text = "", date: Text = "", utc: Bool = false): Text ?
EXPERIMENTAL
Formats a date with a special format.
If no date is specified, the current date is used.
If no format is specified, "%FT%T%Z" format is used.
For more info about format type "man date" on your shell or go to https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/date.
Format :
%% a literal %
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)
%d day of month (e.g., 01)
%D date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F full date; like %+4Y-%m-%d
%g last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h same as %b
%H hour (00..23)
%I hour (01..12)
%j day of year (001..366)
%k hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H
%l hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I
%m month (01..12)
%M minute (00..59)
%n a newline
%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P like %p, but lower case
%q quarter of year (1..4)
%r locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s seconds since the Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC)
%S second (00..60)
%t a tab
%T time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y year
%z +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400)
%:z +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)
%Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. The following optional flags may follow '%':
- (hyphen) do not pad the field
_ (underscore) pad with spaces
0 (zero) pad with zeros
+ pad with zeros, and put '+' before future years with >4 digits
^ use upper case if possible
# use opposite case if possible
now
pub fun now(): Num
Returns the current timestamp (seconds since the Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC)).
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