Time related functions

Internally, the razor programs hold time values as integers, and this is often reflected in how they appear in the History and Info files.¹ In order to make the parsing and manipulation of these files by shell scripts easier, we have provided a few convenience functions.

Options supplied to `razor'
Results

rz_time

Outputs the integer value for the current time.

rz_time <string>

Outputs the integer value for the time <string>, which must be formatted yyyy/mm/dd,HH:MM:SS as in 1998/07/25,15:05:30. (Note that there are no spaces within the date string.)

rz_fmt_time <val> <fmt>

Given an integer time <val>, the program will output it as a human readable format specified by the <fmt>. Please refer to the man pages for ctime() for details about the <fmt>.¹

rz_time_val <string> <fmt>

This is the inverse of the command above. The program will interpret the <string> according to the <fmt>, and output the integer time value.

¹ UNIX/WindowsNT platforms only.

Options supplied to `razor'	Results
rz_time	Outputs the integer value for the current time.
rz_time <string>	Outputs the integer value for the time <string>, which must be formatted yyyy/mm/dd,HH:MM:SS as in 1998/07/25,15:05:30. (Note that there are no spaces within the date string.)
rz_fmt_time <val> <fmt>	Given an integer time <val>, the program will output it as a human readable format specified by the <fmt>. Please refer to the man pages for ctime() for details about the <fmt>.¹
rz_time_val <string> <fmt>	This is the inverse of the command above. The program will interpret the <string> according to the <fmt>, and output the integer time value.

¹ Refer to "Razor File Formats" on page 259 for a description.


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