ascii-time(3)

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NAME

ascii-time - Return the current time as a string

SYNOPSIS

ascii-time

DESCRIPTION

ascii-time returns the current time as a formatted string in #p9 which is equivalent to #l9 for the calling macro. The format of the time string is:

"WWW MMM DD hh:mm:ss yyyy"

Where: WWW  - Week day, Sun - Sat
MMM  - Month, Jan - Dec
DD   - Day, 1 - 31
hh   - Hour, 00 - 23
mm   - Minute, 00 - 59
ss   - Second, 00 - 59
yyyy - Year, 1998...

EXAMPLE

The following is taken from etfinsrt.emf, it uses ascii-time in replacing " $ASCII_TIME$ " with the current.

0 define-macro etfinsrt 
    . 
    . 
    ; Change the create date $ASCII_TIME$. 
    beginning-of-buffer 
    ; Get ASCII time in #l9 
    ascii-time 
    !force replace-string "\\$ASCII_TIME\\$" #l9 
    . 
    . 
!emacro

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