Forum OpenACS Q&A: Accessing the system clock

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1: Accessing the system clock
Posted by Andrew Zeon on 10/03/02 09:57 AM
Hi,

If I need to access the current time and date of the system, how
would I do that?

Thanks.

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2: Response to Accessing the system clock (response to 1)
Posted by defunct defunct on 10/03/02 11:12 AM
If you just want a formatted data string you could use the tcl

clock format [clock clicks]

you can supply a -format option to have this information reported in whatever form you like.

just do a 'man clock' for full details

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3: Response to Accessing the system clock (response to 1)
Posted by David Walker on 10/03/02 01:42 PM
ns_write [ns_fmttime [clock seconds]]
ns_write [clock format [clock seconds] ]
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4: Response to Accessing the system clock (response to 1)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 10/04/02 11:03 AM
If I wanted to keep consistent times, I would you use my database as my clock.

In Oracle, you use the following:
select to_char(sysdate,'hh24:mi') as current_time from dual;

Related tip from bad experience: never change the OS time when the database is up. Ouch!

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5: Response to Accessing the system clock (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 10/05/02 04:08 PM