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This is a mirror of the LUA function [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.7 os.date()].
This is a mirror of the LUA function [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.7 os.date()].


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>
Note that the default format returned when calling the date() function with no parameters will be different depending on whether the game is running on a PC or a Macintosh computer. If you want your addon to be compatible with both systems, you should therefore not use date() without parameters, instead, use
 
date("%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S")
to display the date in the default PC format
 
-or-
 
date("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
to display the date in the default Macintosh format


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