CTime

CTime Class

Objects of CTime class represent the system’s UTC clock which measures time in seconds since 1900. This class also implements the methods that convert UTC time into calendar time.

The return value of the methods gmTime and localTime is an Array that contains the following values.

returnArray at 0    Seconds (0... 59)
returnArray at 1    Minutes (0... 59)
returnArray at 2    Hours (0... 23)
returnArray at 3    Day of the Month (1... 31)
returnArray at 4    Month (0... 11)
returnArray at 5    Year (Number of years since 1900.)
returnArray at 6    Day of the Week (0 = Sunday ... 6 = Saturday)
returnArray at 7    Day of the Year (1... 365)
returnArray at 8    > 0 = Daylight Savings Time; 0 = Standard Time; 
                    < 0 = Not Available

Instance Methods

cTime (void)

Returns a formatted String with the date and time of the receiver.

The return String of a cTime call is formatted as in this example.

"Sun Jan 6 13:04:00 2008\n" 

gmTime (void)

Returns an Array with the values described above for the current Greenwich Mean Time.

haveDST (void)

Return an Integer that evaluates to True if the system provides daylight savings time information, False otherwise.

isAM (void)

Returns an Integer that evaluates to True or False depending on whether the local time is a.m. or p.m.

localTime (void)

Returns an Array with the values described above for the current local time.

timeZoneName (void)

Return a String with the name of the time zone provided by the system.

timeZoneOffset (void)

Return an Integer with the time zone offset in seconds from GMT. Not all systems provide this information.

utcTime (void)

Return an Integer object containing the current UTC time.