From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-Gnu-Emacs@Gnu.Org
Subject: Re: Get current date and time as a string?
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 13:30:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o78yjd7q.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26189.54659.295857.993689@woitok.gmail.com> (Rainer Woitok's message of "Wed, 22 May 2024 13:22:43 +0200")
On Wed, May 22 2024, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> after having unsuccessfully used "C-h a" to find a command returning the
> current date and time (preferably as "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss") I'm now ask-
> ing the combined wisdom of this list: is there such a thing?
You'll want a combination of `current-time` and `format-time-string`. See (info
"(elisp) Time of Day") and (info "(elisp) Time Parsing"), respectively.
HTH
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-22 11:22 Get current date and time as a string? Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-05-22 11:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-05-22 11:30 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2024-05-22 11:52 ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-05-22 11:59 ` Joost Kremers
2024-05-22 16:27 ` tpeplt
2024-05-22 18:18 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-05-23 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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