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@@ -10266,12 +10266,36 @@ Syntax: .TP Description: -The time functions return the local time in the system's timezone. The time function returns the number of seconds that have elapsed since -midnight, January 1, 1970. The time-usec function returns a cons cell whose -car field holds the seconds measured in the same way, and whose cdr field -extends the precision by giving number of microseconds as an integer value -between 0 and 999999. +midnight, January 1, 1970, in the UTC timezone. + +The time-usec function returns a cons cell whose car field holds the seconds +measured in the same way, and whose cdr field extends the precision by giving +number of microseconds as an integer value between 0 and 999999. + +.SS Functions time-string-local and time-string-utc + +.TP +Syntax: + + (time-string-local <format> <time>) + (time-string-utc <format> <time>) + +.TP +Description: + +These functions take the numeric time returned by the time function, +and convert it to a textual representation in a very flexible way, according to +a detailed format string. + +The time-string-local function converts the time to the local timezone of +the host system. The time-string-utc function produces time in UTC. + +The <format> argument is a string, and follows exactly the same conventions as +the format string of the C library function strftime. + +The <time> argument is an integer representing seconds obtained from the +time function or from the time-usec function. .SH WEB PROGRAMMING SUPPORT |