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sidebar_label: Introduction

Structs

Struct	Description
SDateTime	A basic DateTime struct.

Enums

Enum	Description
EWeekday	Enumeration for the days of the week.
EShortWeekday	Enumeration for the abbreviated days of the week.

Functions

Function CurrentDateTime(dt:SDateTime Var, utc:Int = True)

Returns the current date and time.

Function CurrentUnixTime:ULong()

Returns the current Unix time in milliseconds.

The Unix time is a system for describing a point in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970, minus the number of leap seconds.

Function WeekDayToShortWeekday:EShortWeekday(day:EWeekday)

Converts an EWeekday value to its corresponding EShortWeekday value.

Returns

The corresponding EShortWeekday value.

Function ShortWeekdayToWeekDay:EWeekday(shortDay:EShortWeekday)

Converts an EShortWeekday value to its corresponding EWeekday value.

Returns

The corresponding EWeekday value.

Function CurrentDate:String(_format:String="%d <i>b</i> <i>Y</i>")

Gets the current date string.

By default, it returns the current date in the format: DD MON YYYY (i.e. 10 DEC 2000). You can also specify some parameters to return the date in a format of your choice:

parameter	description
%%a	Abbreviated day name (sun - mon).
%%A	Long day name (Sunday - Monday).
%%b	Abbreviated month name (jan - feb).
%%B	Long month name (January...).
%%c	Locale date & time.
%%d	day - in number (1..31).
%%H	hour - in number (0..23).
%%I	hour - in number (1..12).
%%j	day of the year (1..366).
%%m	month - in number (1..12).
%%M	minutes - in number (00..59).
%%P	AM / PM.
%%S	seconds - in number (00..59).
%%U	week number
%%w	day of the week (0..6).
%%W	week of the year (0..53).
%%x	locale data representation.
%%y	year without century (2014 --> 14).
%%Y	Year (2014).
%%Z	Time zone name.

You can use these parameters together:
CurrentDate("Month: %%a Day: %%d")

Returns

The current date as a string

Function CurrentTime:String()

Gets the current time string.

Returns the current time in the format: HH:MM:SS (i.e. 14:31:57).

Returns

The current time as a string