Os.time

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: os

Description

Returns the current time when called without arguments, or a time representing the date and time specified by the given table.

(number) = os.time(table)

table fields:

• year
• month
• day
• hour optional
• min optional
• sec optional
• isdst optional

The returned value is a number, whose meaning depends on your system. In POSIX, Windows, and some other systems, this number counts the number of seconds since some given start time (the "epoch": 1 January 1970, 00:00:00). In other systems, the meaning is not specified, and the number returned by time can be used only as an argument to date and difftime

Parameters

table: (table) table representing a date time optional

Return values

Returns (number) time in seconds

Example

local myt = os.time({year=2003, month=7, day=14, hour=8})
print(myt)

See also

Os.date

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• Os
• Os.clock
• Os.date
• Os.difftime
• Os.execute
• Os.exit
• Os.getenv
• Os.remove
• Os.rename
• Os.setlocale
• Os.time
• Os.timer
• Os.tmpname

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