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VERSIONlatest All functions for date operations and date functions.

DATE

NAME

date - All functions for date operations and date functions.

SYNOPSIS

date See all functions related to date operations

DESCRIPTION

Date functions.

The function date() return the following items:

  • hour : The number of hours past midnight, in the range 0 to 23.
  • min : The number of minutes after the hour, in the range 0 to 59.
  • sec : The number of seconds after the minute, in the range 0 to 59.
  • usec : The number of microseconds after the second, in the range of 0 to 999999.
  • withtz : When non-zero, this is a TIME WITH TIME ZONE. Otherwise, it is a TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE.
  • isdst : A value of 1 indicates daylight savings time. A value of 0 indicates standard time. A value of -1 means unknown or could not determine.
  • gmtoff : Offset from UTC in seconds. This value is not always available. It is set to 0 if it cannot be determined.

AUTHOR

Written by Pierre Laplante and Caroline Laplante, <laplante@sednove.com>