TIME(3am) GNU Awk Extension Modules TIME(3am)

NAME

 time - time functions for gawk

SYNOPSIS

 @load "time"
 time = gettimeofday()
 ret = sleep(amount)
 timeval = strptime(string, format)

DESCRIPTION

 The time extension adds three functions named gettimeofday() sleep(), and
 stptrime(), as follows.
 gettimeofday()
 This function returns the number of seconds since the Epoch as a
 floating-point value. It should have subsecond precision. It
 returns -1 upon error and sets ERRNO to indicate the problem.
 sleep(seconds)
 This function attempts to sleep for the given amount of seconds,
 which may include a fractional portion. If seconds is negative,
 or the attempt to sleep fails, then it returns -1 and sets ERRNO.
 Otherwise, the function should return 0 after sleeping for the
 indicated amount of time.
 time(3)
 This function takes two arguments, a string representing a date
 and time, and a format string describing the data in the string.
 It calls the C library time(3) function with the given values.
 If the parsing succeeds, the results are passed to the C library
 time(3) function, and its result is returned, expressing the
 time in seconds since the epoch in the current local timezone,
 regardless of any timezone specified in the string arguments.
 (This is the same as gawk's built-in time(3) function.)
 Otherwise it returns -1 upon error. In the latter case, ERRNO
 indicates the problem.

BUGS

 The underlying time(3) C library routine apparently ignores any time
 zone indication in the date string, producing values relative to the
 current time zone. It might be better to have this routine return a
 string similar to what gawk's time(3) function expects, but we ran out
 of energy.

EXAMPLE

 @load "time"
 ...
 printf "It is now %g seconds since the Epoch\n", gettimeofday()
 ...
 printf "Pausing for a while... " ; sleep(2.5) ; print "done"
 ...
 format = "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
 now = systime()
 print now, "<" (result = strftime(format, now)) ">",
 then = strptime(result, format)
 print strftime(format, then)

SEE ALSO

 GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3) , fnmatch(3) , fork(3) ,
 inplace(3) , ordchr(3) , readdir(3) , readfile(3) , revoutput(3) ,
 rwarray(3) .
 time(3).

AUTHOR

 Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

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