Time - Guile Reference Manual

The following procedures either accept an object representing a broken down time and return a selected component, or accept an object representing a broken down time and a value and set the component to the value. The numbers in parentheses give the usual range.

— Scheme Procedure: tm:sec tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:sec tm val

Seconds (0-59).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:min tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:min tm val

Minutes (0-59).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:hour tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:hour tm val

Hours (0-23).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:mday tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:mday tm val

Day of the month (1-31).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:mon tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:mon tm val

Month (0-11).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:year tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:year tm val

Year (70-), the year minus 1900.

— Scheme Procedure: tm:wday tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:wday tm val

Day of the week (0-6) with Sunday represented as 0.

— Scheme Procedure: tm:yday tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:yday tm val

Day of the year (0-364, 365 in leap years).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:isdst tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:isdst tm val

Daylight saving indicator (0 for “no”, greater than 0 for “yes”, less than 0 for “unknown”).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:gmtoff tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:gmtoff tm val

Time zone offset in seconds west of UTC (-46800 to 43200).

— Scheme Procedure: tm:zone tm
— Scheme Procedure: set-tm:zone tm val

Time zone label (a string), not necessarily unique.

— Scheme Procedure: localtime time [zone]
— C Function: scm_localtime (time, zone)

Return an object representing the broken down components of time, an integer like the one returned by current-time. The time zone for the calculation is optionally specified by zone (a string), otherwise the TZ environment variable or the system default is used.

— Scheme Procedure: gmtime time
— C Function: scm_gmtime (time)

Return an object representing the broken down components of time, an integer like the one returned by current-time. The values are calculated for UTC.

— Scheme Procedure: mktime sbd-time [zone]
— C Function: scm_mktime (sbd_time, zone)

For a broken down time object sbd-time, return a pair the car of which is an integer time like current-time, and the cdr of which is a new broken down time with normalized fields.
zone is a timezone string, or the default is the TZ environment variable or the system default (see Specifying the Time Zone with TZ). sbd-time is taken to be in that zone.
The following fields of sbd-time are used: tm:year, tm:mon, tm:mday, tm:hour, tm:min, tm:sec, tm:isdst. The values can be outside their usual ranges. For example tm:hour normally goes up to 23, but a value say 33 would mean 9 the following day.
tm:isdst in sbd-time says whether the time given is with daylight savings or not. This is ignored if zone doesn't have any daylight savings adjustment amount.
The broken down time in the return normalizes the values of sbd-time by bringing them into their usual ranges, and using the actual daylight savings rule for that time in zone (which may differ from what sbd-time had). The easiest way to think of this is that sbd-time plus zone converts to the integer UTC time, then a localtime is applied to get the normal presentation of that time, in zone.

— Scheme Procedure: tzset
— C Function: scm_tzset ()

Initialize the timezone from the TZ environment variable or the system default. It's not usually necessary to call this procedure since it's done automatically by other procedures that depend on the timezone.

— Scheme Procedure: strftime format tm
— C Function: scm_strftime (format, tm)

Return a string which is broken-down time structure tm formatted according to the given format string.
format contains field specifications introduced by a `%' character. See Formatting Calendar Time, or `man 3 strftime', for the available formatting.
          (strftime "%c" (localtime (current-time)))
          => "Mon Mar 11 20:17:43 2002"
     
If setlocale has been called (see Locales), month and day names are from the current locale and in the locale character set.
Note that `%Z' might print the tm:zone in tm or it might print just the current zone (tzset above). A GNU system prints tm:zone, a strict C99 system like NetBSD prints the current zone. Perhaps in the future Guile will try to get tm:zone used always.

— Scheme Procedure: strptime format string
— C Function: scm_strptime (format, string)

Performs the reverse action to strftime, parsing string according to the specification supplied in template. The interpretation of month and day names is dependent on the current locale. The value returned is a pair. The CAR has an object with time components in the form returned by localtime or gmtime, but the time zone components are not usefully set. The CDR reports the number of characters from string which were used for the conversion.

— Variable: internal-time-units-per-second

The value of this variable is the number of time units per second reported by the following procedures.

— Scheme Procedure: times
— C Function: scm_times ()

Return an object with information about real and processor time. The following procedures accept such an object as an argument and return a selected component:
— Scheme Procedure: tms:clock tms

The current real time, expressed as time units relative to an arbitrary base.

— Scheme Procedure: tms:utime tms

The CPU time units used by the calling process.

— Scheme Procedure: tms:stime tms

The CPU time units used by the system on behalf of the calling process.

— Scheme Procedure: tms:cutime tms

The CPU time units used by terminated child processes of the calling process, whose status has been collected (e.g., using waitpid).

— Scheme Procedure: tms:cstime tms

Similarly, the CPU times units used by the system on behalf of terminated child processes.

6.2.5 Time