From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
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 14:18:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALTqLiYQ-n0J5KkJV=AAmT-VbA9y+fdNNnE32PyJOHtEM+tj-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26189.54659.295857.993689@woitok.gmail.com>
The function you are looking for is `format-time-string'.
Get help on it with ``C-h f format-time-string``
Use ielm (the Elisp shell) to experiment while the help is shown inside
another buffer.
*** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) or press C-h m for help.
ELISP> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")
"2024-05-22"
ELISP> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
"2024-05-22T14:15:11"
ELISP>
Hope this helps
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 7:23 AM Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
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?
>
> Sincerely,
> Rainer
>
>
--
/Pierre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 18:18 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
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 [this message]
2024-05-23 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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