maketime
Summary
Generates the UNIX timestamp of a given date/time.Usage
maketime( [hour [, minute [, second [, month [, day [, year [, dst ] ] ] ] ] ] ] )
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| hour | integer | Hour of the day. | No. |
| minute | integer | Minute of the hour. | No. |
| second | integer | Second of the minute. | No. |
| month | integer | Month of the year. | No. |
| day | integer | Day of the month. | No. |
| year | integer | The year. | No. |
| dst | integer | Daylight savings (on/off). | No. |
Returns
A UNIX timestamp (an integer).Description
This operator returns the UNIX timestamp corresponding to the provided parameters. The parameters may be left out in order from right to left. Parameters that are omitted will be set to the current value according to the local date and time. The "dst" parameter can be set to 1 if the time is during daylight savings time (DST), 0 if it is not, or -1 (the default) if it is unknown whether the time is within daylight savings time or not (the system will try to figure it out). If no parameters are given, the operator will return the current timestamp.
Examples
Example 1
{maketime( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2004 )}
The following output will be produced: "1081119723" - which is the UNIX timestamp for "01:02:03, 5th of April, 2004".
Balazs Halasy (21/03/2005 9:32 am)
Julia Shymova (26/04/2007 11:36 am)
Comments
mktime alias
Thursday 20 September 2007 7:10:03 am
Eirik Johansen