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{{wowlua}} | |||
date() is a reference to the os.date function. It is put in the global table as the os module is not available. | |||
date ([format [, time]]) | date ([format [, time]]) | ||
It returns a string or a table containing the user's machine's current date and time (or the [[API_time|time]] represented by <tt>time</tt>), formatted according to the given string <tt>format</tt>. | It returns a string or a table containing the user's machine's current date and time (or the [[API_time|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. | |||
This is a mirror of the LUA function [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-os.date os.date()]. | This is a mirror of the LUA function [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-os.date os.date()]. | ||
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to display the date in the default Macintosh format | to display the date in the default Macintosh format | ||
{{ | == Also see == | ||
* {{api|GetGameTime}}() | |||