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WoW:API date (source)

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-Seems to return the date as a string like:
+<tt>date ([format [, time]])</tt>
-/11/05 15:21:19
-The date appears to be in the american format even in europe, ie the "06" above
+It returns a string or a table containing the user's machine's current date and time (or the time represented by <tt>time</tt>), formatted according to the given string <tt>format</tt>.  If one wishes to supply your own format string, then it uses the same rules as [http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html strftime()].  The special string <tt>*t</tt> tells the <tt>date()</tt> function to return a table.
-denotes the month, and the "11" is the day (Which would be written 11/6 most
-places in Europe)
-It appears the time is in the normal 24 hour clock though.
+This is a mirror of the LUA function [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.7 os.date()].
-The time returned is that of the users own machine and not the time of the server.
+If one supplies no arguments, it returns the current date and time formatted using the following string: <tt>%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S</tt>
-Crash.