Thomas Chust wrote: >> Is there a function that returns the current date/time? I've looked >> carefully through the posix interface docs, and can't find it there; and >> I see that Chicken doesn't support SRFI-19 (wouldn't that be a good >> idea?). So, other the obvious kludge of calling the 'date' shell >> command, what can I do?
> are you using a recent version of CHICKEN? 2.207. > In my 2.212 build, the POSIX > unit contains the necessary functions: > * There is the current-seconds function in the library unit, which > retrieves the current utime, Oh, you're right. Of course, I opened up csi and tried a variety of likely names: time, now, current-time, local-time ... just about everything *except* current-seconds. > * and in the POSIX unit you find seconds->local-time, seconds->utc-time, > seconds->string and time->string. Of course, those require a timestamp as an argument. Thanks for the info. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
