The following functions are available:

• now : returns the current timestamp in the Templeet format
• timestamp2day , timestamp2month , timestamp2year , timestamp2hhmm and timestamp2hhmmss : timestamp handling
• format_timestamp : format of a Templeet timestamp
• format_unixtimestamp : format an UNIX timestamp

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now

now returns the local date and time with the YYYYMMDDhhmmss format, 4 digits for years, 2 digits for months, 2 digits for days, 2 digits for hours, minutes and seconds. (e.g. 20020814203015 for the 14th August 2002 at 20:30:15). There is no parameter.

Exemple :

The timestamp2 functions

There is 5 functions to extract part of a date with a YYYYMMDDhhmmss or the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.

They are:

• ~timestamp2day
• ~timestamp2month
• ~timestamp2year
• ~timestamp2hhmm
• ~timestamp2hhmmss

The only parameter is the date to convert.

Exemples :

format_timestamp

~format_timestamp() takes two parameters. The first one is the destination format, the second is the date (again in the YYYYMMDDhhmmss or YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format).

This function results in : 12/05/08 23:46

The following characters are used for specifying the output format :

%a - short name of the week day (local).
%A - long name of the week day (local).
%b - short name of the month (local).
%B - long name of the month (local).
%c - prefered representation for dates and times (local).
%C - century number (the year divided by 100 and rounded between 0 and 99)
%d - day of the month with a leading zero. (between 01 and 31)
%D - similar to %m/%d/%y
%e - day of the month with a leading space. (between ' 1' and '31')
%h - similar to %b
%H - hour with leading zeros in 24-hours format. (between 00 and 23)
%I - hour with leading zeros in 12-hours format. (between 01 and 12)
%j - day of the year with leading zeros. (between 001 and 366)
%m - month in numeric (from 1 to 12)
%M - minute in numeric
%n - newline character
%p - either `am' or `pm' depending on the absolute time or the local format.
%r - hours with a trailing 'a.m.' or 'p.m.'
%R - hour in a 24-hours format.
%S - seconds in numeric.
%t - tab character.
%T - current time (similar to %H:%M:%S).
%u - number of day in the week, between 1 and 7, 1 being monday.
%U - week number within the year, with the first sunday of the year as the first day of the first week of the year.
%V - week number as defined by ISO 8601:1988, in numeric, between 01 and 53. The week 1 is the first week having more than 4 days in the year, and having monday as the first day.
%W - week number within the year, but with the first monday of this year being the first day of the first week.
%w - day of the week in numeric, but with 0 for sunday.
%x - prefered format for date without hours.
%X - prefered format for time without date.
%y - year in two digit, with leading zeros.
%Y - year in four digits with leading zeros.
%Z - timezone, name or abbreviated.
%% - a '%' character.

format_unixtimestamp

UNIX timestamp are also widespread. It is the number of seconds elapsed since the 1st January 1970 00:00:00 GMT. For instance 09/09/01 at 03:46:40 was the UNIX timestamp 1000000000.

The use of ~format_unixtimestamp() is exactly the same than ~format_timestamp()

The previous example returns "12/05/08 23:46:36".