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The time library provides functions for determining the time and manipulating time values. KRE tries to determine the user's location and creates a time object that is localized for the user (i.e., in the user's time zone). The following functions are available:

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time:now() - returns the current date based upon the user's location dataand time based on a time zone.

xTime = time:now()		# 2010-10-06T18:11:47Z
 
xTime = time:now({		# 2010-10-06T18:11:47Z
	"tz" : "America/Los_Angeles"
})

The default time zone is determined by the operating system running Node and is used if an invalid time zone is provided. The list of valid time zones is updated periodically — for example, version 0.40.0 of the core engine used IANA TZDB 2017b.

time:new()

time:new() - returns a new RFC 3339 datetime string from a string formatted as described in ISO8601 (v2000). It assumes UTC unless otherwise specified.

time:new("2010-08-08")            # 2010-08-08T00:00:00Z (Date only—defaults to 00:00)
time:new("673421967342")                 # 1967-12-08T00:00:00Z (Year DayOfYear)
time:new("2011W206T1345-0600")    # 2011-05-21T19:45:00Z (Year WeekOfYear DayOfWeek)
time:new("083023Z")               # 2010-10-05T08:30:23Z (Time only—defaults to today)

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time:add() - adds (or subtracts) a specific number of time units to a source string, assuming UTC unless otherwise specified.

time:add("2011W206T1345-0600",{"days": -65})      # 2011-03-17T13:45:00Z
time:add("2010-08-08",{"weeks": 5})              # 2010-09-12T00:00:00Z
time:add("673421967342",{"hours": 3})                    # 1967-12-08T04:00:00Z
time:add("083023Z",{"minutes": 10})             # 2010-10-06T08:40:23Z
time:add("083023Z1970-01-01",{"seconds": 6321286388924})  # 2010-10-06T18:15:24Z
time:add("1967342", {"milliseconds": 5})        # 20101967-1012-06T0808T00:4000:55Z00.005Z
time:add("1970-01-011967342", {"secondsms": 12863889245})                  # 20101967-1012-06T18:15:24Z08T00:00:00.005Z

Unrecognized time units are ignored. The exact rules can get complicated considering leap years, different month lengths, and adding (or subtracting) multiple units at once versus one after another. See http://momentjs.com/docs/#/manipulating/add/ (the time module uses a version above 2.18.0). UTC does not have daylight savings time.

time:strftime()

time:strftime() - returns a datetime string in a specified format following POSIX strftime conventions. It assumes the default time zone of the operating system running Node.

time:strftime(xTime, "%F %T")          # 2010-10-06 18:15:24
time:strftime(xTime, "%F")             # 2010-10-06
time:strftime(xTime, "%T")             # 18:19:29
time:strftime(xTime, "%A %d %b %Y")    # Wednesday 06 Oct 2010
time:strftime(xTime, "%c")             # Oct 6, 2010 6:25:55 PM
time:strftime(xTime, "%s")             # 1286388924 -- seconds since epoch

Valid format arguments to strftime follow the POSIX strftime conventions. If the format string is invalid, the format string is returned as is.

time:strftime() takes an optional third argument that is used to specify the timezone of the resulting formatted string. This can be used, among other things, to simply convert the timezone by returning an ISO formatted datetime string. For example, the following function uses time:strftime() to convert an incoming datetime string to UTC:

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