System time

System time
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

Task

Output the system time   (any units will do as long as they are noted) either by a system command or one built into the language.

The system time can be used for debugging, network information, random number seeds, or something as simple as program performance.

Related task

•   Date format

See also

•   Retrieving system time (wiki)

Ada

The following example displays a date-time stamp. The time zone value is the number of minutes offset from the prime meridian.

with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar;
with Ada.Calendar.Formatting; use Ada.Calendar.Formatting;
with Ada.Calendar.Time_Zones; use Ada.Calendar.Time_Zones;
with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io;
 
procedure System_Time is
   Now : Time := Clock;
begin
   Put_line(Image(Date => Now, Time_Zone => -7*60));
end System_Time;

Output:

2008-01-23 19:14:19

Aime

date d;
 
d_now(d);
 
o_form("~-/f2/-/f2/ /f2/:/f2/:/f2/\n", d_year(d), d_y_month(d), d_m_day(d),
       d_d_hour(d), d_h_minute(d), d_m_second(d));

Output:

2011-09-04 15:05:08

ALGOL 68

Works with: ALGOL 68G version Any - tested with release mk15-0.8b.fc9.i386

FORMAT time repr = $"year="4d,", month="2d,", day="2d,", hours="2d,",  \
                   minutes="2d,", seconds="2d,", day of week="d,",  \
                   daylight-saving-time flag="dl$;
printf((time repr, local time));
printf((time repr, utc time))

Output:

year=2009, month=03, day=12, hours=11, minutes=53, seconds=32, day of week=5, daylight-saving-time flag=0
year=2009, month=03, day=12, hours=01, minutes=53, seconds=32, day of week=5, daylight-saving-time flag=0

AppleScript

display dialog (current date)

Output:

 Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:43:57 PM

AutoHotkey

FormatTime, t
MsgBox,% t

Output:

 4:18 PM Saturday, May 30, 2009

AutoIt

MsgBox(0,"Time", "Year: "&@YEAR&",Day: " &@MDAY& ",Hours: "& @HOUR & ", Minutes: "& @MIN &", Seconds: "& @SEC)

Output:

 Year: 2011,Day: 05,Hour: 09, Minutes: 15, Seconds: 25

AWK

One-liner:

Works with: Gawk

$ awk 'BEGIN{print systime(),strftime()}'

Output:

1242401632 Fri May 15 17:33:52  2009

Solution for other awk-versions:

Works with: awk

 
function dos_date(  cmd,d,t,x) { 	# under MS Windows 
#   cmd = "DATE /T"
#   cmd | getline d	# Format depends on locale, e.g. MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD
#   close(cmd)        	# close pipe
# ##print d
#   cmd = "TIME /T"
#   cmd | getline t   	# 13:59
#   close(cmd) 		
# ##print t
#   return d t
 
    cmd = "echo %DATE% %TIME%"		# this gives better time-resolution
    cmd | getline x   			# 2014-10-31 20:57:36.84
    close(cmd)
    return x
}
BEGIN {
   print "Date and time:", dos_date()
  #print systime(), strftime()		# gawk only
}
 

Output:

2014-10-31 20:57:36.84

See also: System_time#Batch, Discordian_date

BaCon

' BaCon time
n = NOW
PRINT n, " seconds since January 1st, 1970"
PRINT YEAR(n), MONTH(n), DAY(n) FORMAT "%04d/%02d/%02d "
PRINT HOUR(n), MINUTE(n), SECOND(n) FORMAT "%02d:%02d:%02d\n"

Output:

1503869183 seconds since January 1st, 1970
2017/08/27 17:26:23

BASIC

Works with: QBasic

This shows the system time in seconds since midnight.

PRINT TIMER

This shows the time in human-readable format (using a 24-hour clock):

PRINT TIME$

Batch File

There is no way to get a computer-readable date or time representation in batch files. All output is human-readable and follows the current locale.

Both date and time have a /t argument which makes them output only the value instead of prompting for a new one as well.

Works with: Windows NT

date /t
time /t

Furthermore there are two pseudo-variables %DATE% and %TIME%:

Works with: Windows NT version 4

echo %DATE% %TIME%

BBC BASIC

      PRINT TIME$

Outputs the date and time. To output only the time:

      PRINT RIGHT$(TIME$,8)

C

This probably isn't the best way to do this, but it works.

It shows system time as "Www Mmm dd hh:mm:ss yyyy", where Www is the weekday, Mmm the month in letters, dd the day of the month, hh:mm:ss the time, and yyyy the year.

#include<time.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main(){
  time_t my_time = time(NULL);
  printf("%s", ctime(&my_time));
  return 0;
}

C++

to be compiled under linux with g++ -lboost_date_time systemtime.cpp -o systemtime( or whatever you like)

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp>
 
int main( ) {
   boost::posix_time::ptime t ( boost::posix_time::second_clock::local_time( ) ) ;
   std::cout << to_simple_string( t ) << std::endl ;
   return 0 ;
}

C++ 11

#include <chrono>
#include <ctime> //for conversion std::ctime()
#include <iostream>
 
int main() {
    auto timenow = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(std::chrono::system_clock::now());
    std::cout << std::ctime(&timenow) << std::endl;
}

Output:

 Thu Dec 26 13:51:00 2013

C#

Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);

Clojure

(import '[java.util Date])
; the current system date time string
(print (new Date))
; the system time as milliseconds since 1970
(print (. (new Date) getTime))
; or
(print (System/currentTimeMillis))

COBOL

       WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
       01  WS-CURRENT-DATE-FIELDS.
           05  WS-CURRENT-DATE.
               10  WS-CURRENT-YEAR    PIC  9(4).
               10  WS-CURRENT-MONTH   PIC  9(2).
               10  WS-CURRENT-DAY     PIC  9(2).
           05  WS-CURRENT-TIME.
               10  WS-CURRENT-HOUR    PIC  9(2).
               10  WS-CURRENT-MINUTE  PIC  9(2).
               10  WS-CURRENT-SECOND  PIC  9(2).
               10  WS-CURRENT-MS      PIC  9(2).
           05  WS-DIFF-FROM-GMT       PIC S9(4).
 
       PROCEDURE DIVISION.
           MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO WS-CURRENT-DATE-FIELDS.

ColdFusion

Script Based CFML

<cfscript>
  // Date Time
  currentTime = Now();
  writeOutput( currentTime );
 
  // Epoch
  // Credit for Epoch time should go to Ben Nadel
  // bennadel.com is his blog
  utcDate = dateConvert( "local2utc", currentTime );
  writeOutput( utcDate.getTime() );
</cfscript>

Output:

Current DateTime: {ts '2017-06-06 10:36:28'}
Epoch: 1496763388434

Common Lisp

(multiple-value-bind (second minute hour day month year) (get-decoded-time)
 	  (format t "~4,'0D-~2,'0D-~2,'0D ~2,'0D:~2,'0D:~2,'0D" year month day hour minute second))

D

Works with: Tango

Clock.now.span in the example below returnes the time-span since 1 Jan 1 A.D. Days are used in the example, but lower units are available, with the lowest being nanoseconds (nanos field).

Stdout(Clock.now.span.days / 365).newline;

DCL

$ start_time = f$time()
$ wait 0::10
$ end_time = f$time()
$ write sys$output "start time was ", start_time
$ write sys$output "end time was   ", end_time
$ write sys$output "delta time is         ", f$delta_time( start_time, end_time )

Output:

$ @system_time
start time was  4-JUN-2015 15:38:09.60
end time was    4-JUN-2015 15:38:19.60
delta time is            0 00:00:10.00

The alternative below doesn't facilitate the calculation of the delta time;

Output:

$ show time
   4-JUN-2015 15:33:33

Delphi

lblDateTime.Caption := FormatDateTime('dd mmmm yyyy hh:mm:ss', Now);

This populates a label with the date

DWScript

PrintLn(FormatDateTime('dd mmmm yyyy hh:mm:ss', Now));

E

println(timer.now())

The value is the number of milliseconds since 1970.

Elixir

:os.timestamp                   # => {MegaSecs, Secs, MicroSecs}
:erlang.time                    # => {Hour, Minute, Second}
:erlang.date                    # => {Year, Month, Day}
:erlang.localtime               # => {{Year, Month, Day}, {Hour, Minute, Second}}
:erlang.universaltime           # => {{Year, Month, Day}, {Hour, Minute, Second}}
 
:calendar.local_time            # => {{Year, Month, Day}, {Hour, Minute, Second}}
:calendar.universal_time        # => {{Year, Month, Day}, {Hour, Minute, Second}}

It is also guaranteed that subsequent calls to this BIF returns continuously increasing values. Hence, the return value from :erlang.now() can be used to generate unique time-stamps, and if it is called in a tight loop on a fast machine the time of the node can become skewed.

:random.seed(:erlang.now)

Emacs Lisp

(message "%s" (current-time-string))
=>
"Wed Oct 14 22:21:05 1987"

current-time is the main programmatic interface, with various functions available to format or operate on the time values list it gives.

Erlang

By default, Erlang timestamps are turned in the {megasecs, secs, microsecs} format.

1> os:timestamp().
{1250,222584,635452}

These can be changed with the calendar module:

2> calendar:now_to_datetime(os:timestamp()). 
{{2009,8,14},{4,3,24}}
3> calendar:now_to_universal_time(os:timestamp()). 
{{2009,8,14},{4,3,40}}
4> calendar:now_to_local_time(os:timestamp()).    
{{2009,8,14},{0,7,01}}

Note that you will often encounter the function erlang:now/0 giving a time similar to the system time. However, erlang:now/0 may get delayed if the system time changes suddenly (i.e.: coming back from sleep mode). The delay is in place to make sure receive clauses that are millisecond-sensitive do not get false timeouts.

Excel

NOW() returns the date and time to the minute.

Type in a cell :

=NOW()

Output:

9-8-2013 17:33

F#

printfn "%s" (System.DateTime.Now.ToString("u"))

Output:

 2013-09-19 23:56:50Z

Factor

USE: calendar
 
now .

Fantom

DateTime.now returns the current time, which can then be formatted into different styles. For example, toJava returns the current time in milliseconds since 1 Jan 1970.

DateTime.nowTicks returns the number of nanoseconds since 1 Jan 2000 UTC.

fansh> DateTime.nowTicks
351823905158000000
fansh> DateTime.now
2011-02-24T00:51:47.066Z London
fansh> DateTime.now.toJava
1298508885979

Forth

Forth's only standard access to the system timers is via DATE&TIME ( -- s m h D M Y ) and MS ( n -- ) which pauses the program for at least n milliseconds. Particular Forth implementations give different access to millisecond and microsecond timers:

Works with: Win32Forth

Works with: GNU Forth

Works with: bigFORTH

Works with: iForth

Works with: PFE

Works with: SwiftForth

Works with: VFX Forth

Works with: MacForth

[UNDEFINED] MS@ [IF]                                   \ Win32Forth (rolls over daily)
 [DEFINED] ?MS [IF] ( -- ms )
   : ms@ ?MS ;                                         \ iForth
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] cputime [IF] ( -- Dusec )
   : ms@ cputime d+ 1000 um/mod nip ;                  \ gforth: Anton Ertl
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] timer@ [IF] ( -- Dusec )
   : ms@ timer@ >us 1000 um/mod nip ;                  \ bigForth
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] gettimeofday [IF] ( -- usec sec )
   : ms@ gettimeofday 1000 MOD 1000 * SWAP 1000 / + ;  \ PFE
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] counter [IF]
   : ms@ counter ;                                     \ SwiftForth
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] GetTickCount [IF]
   : ms@ GetTickCount ;                                \ VFX Forth
 [ELSE] [DEFINED] MICROSECS [IF]
   : ms@  microsecs 1000 UM/MOD nip ;                  \  MacForth
[THEN] [THEN] [THEN] [THEN] [THEN] [THEN] [THEN]
 
MS@ .   \ print millisecond counter

Fortran

In ISO Fortran 90 or later, use the SYSTEM_CLOCK intrinsic subroutine:

integer :: start, stop, rate
real :: result
 
! optional 1st integer argument (COUNT) is current raw system clock counter value (not UNIX epoch millis!!)
! optional 2nd integer argument (COUNT_RATE) is clock cycles per second
! optional 3rd integer argument (COUNT_MAX) is maximum clock counter value
call system_clock( start, rate )
 
result = do_timed_work()
 
call system_clock( stop )
 
print *, "elapsed time: ", real(stop - start) / real(rate)

In ISO Fortran 95 or later, use the CPU_TIME intrinsic subroutine:

real :: start, stop
real :: result
 
! System clock value interpreted as floating point seconds
call cpu_time( start )
 
result = do_timed_work()
 
call cpu_time( stop )
 
print *, "elapsed time: ", stop - start

FreeBASIC

' FB 1.05.0 Win64
 
Print Date + " " + Time  '' returns system date/time in format : mm-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss
Sleep

Gambas

Click this link to run this code

Public Sub Main()
 
Print Format(Now, "dddd dd mmmm yyyy hh:nn:ss")
 
End

Output:

Thursday 08 June 2017 15:58:41

Go

package main
 
import "time"
import "fmt"
 
func main() {
    t := time.Now()
    fmt.Println(t)                                    // default format
    fmt.Println(t.Format("Mon Jan  2 15:04:05 2006")) // some custom format
}

Groovy

Solution (based on Java solution).

def nowMillis = new Date().time
println 'Milliseconds since the start of the UNIX Epoch (Jan 1, 1970) == ' + nowMillis

Output:

Milliseconds since the start of the UNIX Epoch (Jan 1, 1970) == 1243395159250

GUISS

We can only show the clock, but this might not be set to system time:

Taskbar

Haskell

import System.Time
       (getClockTime, toCalendarTime, formatCalendarTime)
 
import System.Locale (defaultTimeLocale)
 
main :: IO ()
main = do
  ct <- getClockTime
  print ct -- print default format, or
  cal <- toCalendarTime ct
  putStrLn $ formatCalendarTime defaultTimeLocale "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y" cal

or with the time library:

import Data.Time (getZonedTime, formatTime, defaultTimeLocale)
 
main :: IO ()
main = do
  zt <- getZonedTime
  print zt -- print default format, or
  putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y" zt

HicEst

seconds_since_midnight = TIME() ! msec as fraction
 
seconds_since_midnight = TIME(Year=yr, Day=day, WeekDay=wday, Gregorian=gday)
                             ! other options e.g. Excel, YYYYMMDD (num or text)

Hoon

The time of the current system event is made available on the subject in most contexts as now.

now

Output:

~2016.7.24..01.25.02..0f8e

Absolute times have 64-bit subsecond precision, which is used to ensure that no two system events have the same timestamp.

IDL

The systime() function returns system time either as a formatted string (if the argument is zero or absent) or as a double-precision (floating-point) number of seconds (with fractionals) since 1-Jan-1970 otherwise:

 print,systime(0)
    Wed Feb 10 09:41:14 2010
 print,systime(1)
      1.2658237e+009

The default format can also be invoked for a different moment in time by passing a different number of elapsed seconds to the routine as a second argument:

 print,systime(0,1e9)
    Sat Sep 08 17:46:40 2001

Otherwise, the system time can be retrieved in Julian dates:

 print,systime(/julian),format='(F15.7)'
    2455237.9090278

The local time zone is ignored if the utc flag is used:

 print,systime()
    Wed Feb 10 09:50:15 2010
 print,systime(/utc)
    Wed Feb 10 17:50:10 2010

Io

Date now println

Output:

2008-08-26 00:15:52 EDT

Icon and Unicon

procedure main()
 
    write("&time - milliseconds of CPU time = ",&time)
    write("&clock - Time of day as hh:mm:ss (24-hour format) = ",&clock)
    write("&date - current date in yyyy/mm/dd format = ",&date)
    write("&dateline - timestamp with day of the week, date, and current time to the minute = ",&dateline)
 
    if find("Unicon",&version) then  
       write("&now - time in seconds since the epoch = ", &now)  # Unicon only
 
end

Output:

&time - milliseconds of CPU time = 0

&clock - Time of day as hh:mm:ss (24-hour format) = 15:56:14 &date - current date in yyyy/mm/dd format = 2011/06/06 &dateline - timestamp with day of the week, date, and current time to the minute = Monday, June 6, 2011 3:56 pm &now - time in seconds since the epoch = 1307400974

J

The external verb 6!:0 returns a six-element floating-point array in which the elements correspond to year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. Fractional portion of second is given to thousandths.

   6!:0 ''
2008 1 23 12 52 10.341

A formatted string representation of the current time can also be returned:

   6!:0 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.sss'
2009-08-26 10:38:53.171

Java

Works with: Java version 1.5+

public class SystemTime{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.out.format("%tc%n", System.currentTimeMillis());
    }
}

Output:

Mon Jun 21 13:02:19 BST 2010

Or using a Date object:

import java.util.Date;
 
public class SystemTime{
   public static void main(String[] args){
      Date now = new Date();
      System.out.println(now); // string representation
 
      System.out.println(now.getTime()); // Unix time (# of milliseconds since Jan 1 1970)
      //System.currentTimeMillis() returns the same value
   }
}

Alternately, you can use a Calendar object, which allows you to retrieve specific fields of the date.

JavaScript

console.log(new Date()) // => Sat, 28 May 2011 08:22:53 GMT
console.log(Date.now()) // => 1306571005417 // Unix epoch

jq

Works with: jq version 1.5

$ jq -n 'now | [., todate]'
[
  1437619000.970498,
  "2015-07-23T02:36:40Z"
]

"now" reports the number of seconds since the beginning of the Unix epoch.

Julia

 
ts = time()
 
println("The system time is (in ISO 8601 format):")
println(strftime("    %F %T %Z", ts))
 

Output:

The system time is (in ISO 8601 format):
    2015-04-08 14:19:38 CDT

Kotlin

// version 1.0.6
 
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    println("%tc".format(System.currentTimeMillis()))
}
 

Lasso

date->format('%Q %T')
date->asInteger

Output:

2013-11-02 11:47:27
1383407747

LFE

Translation of: Erlang

By default, LFE timestamps are turned in the #(megasecs secs microsecs) format.

 
> (os:timestamp)
#(1423 786308 145798)
 

These can be changed to the more common date/time stamp with the calendar module:

 
> (calendar:now_to_datetime (os:timestamp)) 
#(#(2015 2 13) #(0 12 18))
 

Locale taken into account:

 
> (calendar:now_to_universal_time (os:timestamp))
#(#(2015 2 13) #(0 13 51))
> (calendar:now_to_local_time (os:timestamp))
#(#(2015 2 12) #(16 14 26))
 

Note that you will often encounter the function erlang:now/0 giving a time similar to the system time. However, erlang:now/0 may get delayed if the system time changes suddenly (i.e.: coming back from sleep mode). The delay is in place to ensure that receive clauses which are millisecond-sensitive do not get false timeouts.

Liberty BASIC

print time$()               'time now as string "16:21:44"
print time$("seconds")      'seconds since midnight as number 32314
print time$("milliseconds") 'milliseconds since midnight as number 33221342
print time$("ms")           'milliseconds since midnight as number 33221342

Lingo

put time()
-- "03:45"
 
put date()
-- "01.10.2016"
 
put the systemdate
-- date( 2016, 10, 1 )
 
put the systemdate.seconds
-- 13950
 
-- milliseconds since last boot, due to higher resolution better suited for random number seeding
put _system.milliseconds
-- 41746442

LiveCode

put the system time

Locomotive Basic

The variable "time" contains the time elapsed since last system start or reset. Each unit equals 1/300 s.

print time
print time/300;"s since last reboot"

Logo

Works with: UCB Logo

Other Logo variants might have a built-in command, but UCB Logo must access the Unix shell to get time.

 
to time
  output first first shell [date +%s]
end
 
make "start time
wait 300              ; 60ths of a second
print time - :start   ; 5

Lua

print(os.date())

Mathematica

Different ways of doing this, here are 2 most common:

Print[DateList[]]
Print[AbsoluteTime[]]

DateList will return the list {year,month,day,hour,minute,second} where all of them are integers except for second; that is a float. AbsoluteTime gives the total number of seconds since january 1st 1900 in your time zone.

MATLAB / Octave

 datestr(now)

ans =
13-Aug-2010 12:59:56

 clock

ans =
2010     8     13      12      59     56.52

Maxima

/* Time and date in a formatted string */
timedate();
"2012-08-27 20:26:23+10:00"
 
/* Time in seconds elapsed since 1900/1/1 0:0:0 */
absolute_real_time();
 
/* Time in seconds since Maxima was started */
elapsed_real_time();
elapsed_run_time();

Modula-3

MODULE MyTime EXPORTS Main;
 
IMPORT IO, FmtTime, Time;
 
BEGIN
  IO.Put("Current time: " & FmtTime.Long(Time.Now()) & "\n");
END MyTime.

Output:

Current time: Tue Dec 30 20:50:07 CST 2008

MUMPS

System time since midnight (in seconds) is kept in the second part of the system variable $HOROLOG.

SYSTIME
 NEW PH
 SET PH=$PIECE($HOROLOG,",",2)
 WRITE "The system time is ",PH\3600,":",PH\60#60,":",PH#60
 KILL PH
 QUIT

Usage:

USER>D SYSTIME^ROSETTA
The system time is 22:55:44

Nemerle

System.Console.Write(System.DateTime.Now);

NetRexx

 
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
say SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd-HH.mm.ss.SSS").format(Date())

NewLISP

> (date)
"Sun Sep 28 20:17:55 2014"

Nim

import times
 
echo(getDateStr())
echo(getClockStr())
echo(getTime())

Output:

2013-08-02
07:34:25
Fri Aug  2 07:34:25 2013

Objective-C

NSLog(@"%@", [NSDate date]);

or (deprecated)

NSLog(@"%@", [NSCalendarDate calendarDate]);

Objeck

function : Time() ~ Nil {
  t := Time->New();
  IO.Console->GetInstance()->Print(t->GetHours())->Print(":")->Print(t->GetMinutes())->Print(":")->PrintLine(t->GetSeconds());
}

OCaml

#load "unix.cma";;
open Unix;;
let {tm_sec = sec;
     tm_min = min;
     tm_hour = hour;
     tm_mday = mday;
     tm_mon = mon;
     tm_year = year;
     tm_wday = wday;
     tm_yday = yday;
     tm_isdst = isdst} = localtime (time ());;
Printf.printf "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n" (year + 1900) (mon + 1) mday hour min sec;

Oforth

System.tick is used to retrieve a tick from the system in order to compute small intervals of time. It is used by #bench method to compute duration of a runnable (unit is micro second).

System.tick println
#[ #sqrt 1000000 seq map sum println ] bench

Output:

707095319487
666667166.458841
259819

System.localTime returns number of micro seconds since 01/01/1970:00:00:00 Integer returned by System.localTime allows to create a Date object.

import: date
 
System.localTime dup println asDate println drop drop

Output:

1421095428478000
2015-01-12 21:43:48,478

Oz

{Show {OS.time}}      %% posix time (seconds since 1970-01-01)
{Show {OS.gmTime}}    %% current UTC as a record
{Show {OS.localTime}} %% current local time as record
 
%% Also interesting: undocumented module OsTime
%% When did posix time reach 1 billion?
{Show {OsTime.gmtime 1000000000}}
{Show {OsTime.localtime 1000000000}}

Output:

1263347902
time(hour:1 isDst:0 mDay:13 min:58 mon:0 sec:22 wDay:3 yDay:12 year:110)
time(hour:2 isDst:0 mDay:13 min:58 mon:0 sec:22 wDay:3 yDay:12 year:110)
time(hour:1 isDst:0 mDay:9 min:46 mon:8 sec:40 wDay:0 yDay:251 year:101)
time(hour:3 isDst:1 mDay:9 min:46 mon:8 sec:40 wDay:0 yDay:251 year:101)

PARI/GP

For timing the gettime is usually used, which measures CPU time rather than walltime. But to get the raw time you'll need a system call

system("date")

Direct access to the C library time() function can be had by an install(), and it should be faster than running the date program.

install(time, "lf");
t = time();  
print(t);    \\ integer seconds since the epoch (usually 1 Jan 1970)

install() can't give the higher resolution C library time functions like gettimeofday() or clock_gettime() but some further C code could put their results into a Pari integer or rational suitable for install() in GP.

Pascal

Works with: Turbo Pascal version 5.5

program systime;
uses DOS;
 
{ Format digit with leading zero }
function lz(w: word): string;
var
  s: string;
begin
  str(w,s);
  if length(s) = 1 then
    s := '0' + s;
  lz := s;
end;
 
var
  h,m,s,c: word;
  yr,mo,da,dw: word;
  dt: datetime;
  t,ssm: longint;
  regs: registers;
 
begin
 
  { Time and Date }
  GetTime(h,m,s,c);
  writeln(lz(h),':',lz(m),':',lz(s),'.',c);
  GetDate(yr,mo,da,dw);
  writeln(yr,'-',lz(mo),'-',lz(da));
 
  { Turbo Epoch, seconds }
  with dt do begin
    year := yr; month := mo; day := da;
    hour := h; min := m; sec := s;
  end;
  packtime(dt,t);
  writeln(t);
 
  { Seconds since midnight, PC-BIOS 1Ah }
  regs.ah := 0; Intr($1A,regs);
  ssm := round((regs.cx * 65536 + regs.dx) * (65536 / 1192180));
  writeln(ssm);
 
end.

Output:

23:42:35.9
2010-07-29
1023262033
85427

Perl

Simple localtime use in scalar context.

print scalar localtime, "\n";

Output:

Thu Jan 24 11:23:30 2008

localtime use in array context.

($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
printf("%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", $year + 1900, $mon + 1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec

Output:

2008-01-24 11:23:30

The same using DateTime:

use DateTime;
my $dt = DateTime->now;
my $d = $dt->ymd;
my $t = $dt->hms;
print "$d $t\n";

Output:

2010-03-29 19:46:26

localtime use in array context with POSIX strftime:

use POSIX qw(strftime);
 
$now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;
print "$now_string\n";

Output (with cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale):

Čt led 24 11:23:30 2008

Using the DateTime module:

use DateTime;
my $dt = DateTime->now;
say $dt->iso8601();
say $dt->year_with_christian_era();
say $dt->year_with_secular_era();
# etc.

Unix epoch:

print time;

Output:

1280473609

Perl 6

say DateTime.now;
dd DateTime.now.Instant;

Output:

 2015-11-02T13:34:09+01:00
 Instant $var = Instant.new(<2159577143734/1493>)

Phix

include timedate.e
?format_timedate(date(),"Dddd, Mmmm dth, YYYY, h:mm:ss pm")
 
atom t0 = time()
sleep(0.9)
?time()-t0

Output:

"Tuesday, July 12th, 2016, 11:30:07 am"
0.906

Note the system clock tick rate mean times can be out by ~0.0155s; it is not unusual to see total elapsed times of 0,0,0,0.016,0.016,0.016,0.031,0.031,0.031, etc.

PHP

Seconds since the Unix epoch:

echo time(), "\n";

Microseconds since the Unix epoch:

echo microtime(), "\n";

Formatted time:

echo date('D M j H:i:s Y'), "\n";  // custom format; see format characters here:
                                   // http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
echo date('c'), "\n";  // ISO 8601 format
echo date('r'), "\n";  // RFC 2822 format
echo date(DATE_RSS), "\n";  // can also use one of the predefined formats here:
                            // http://us3.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types

PicoLisp

(stamp)

Output:

-> "2010-02-19 15:14:06

PL/I

put (datetime()); /* writes out the date and time */
                  /* The time is given to thousandths of a second, */
                  /* in the format hhmiss999 */
put (time());     /* gives the time in the format hhmiss999. */

PowerShell

Using a cmdlet:

Get-Date

or using .NET classes and properties:

[DateTime]::Now

PureBasic

time=Date()  ; Unix timestamp
time$=FormatDate("%mm.%dd.%yyyy %hh:%ii:%ss",time)
 
; following value is only reasonable accurate, on Windows it can differ by +/- 20 ms
ms_counter=ElapsedMilliseconds()
; could use API like QueryPerformanceCounter_() on Windows for more accurate values

Python

import time
print time.ctime()

Q

Date & time are accessible via the virtual .z namespace. lowercase names are UTC, uppercase are local:

q).z.D
2010.01.25
q).z.N
0D14:17:45.519682000
q).z.P
2010.01.25D14:17:46.962375000
q).z.T
14:17:47.817
q).z.Z
2010.01.25T14:17:48.711
q).z.z
2010.01.25T19:17:59.445

R

Works with: R version 2.8.1

Note that this is output as a standard style string.

Sys.time()

Output:

[1] "2009-07-27 15:27:04 PDT"

Racket

The system time as a date string:

#lang racket
(require racket/date)
(date->string (current-date))

Or, as seconds after midnight UTC, January 1, 1970:

#lang racket
(current-seconds)

Raven

Note the use of single quotation marks for the date specifier.

time dup print "\n" print int '%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y' date

Output:

1353352623.511231
Tue Nov 20 05:17:03 2012

REBOL

now
print rejoin [now/year "-" now/month "-" now/day " " now/time]

Output:

10-Dec-2009/7:43:55-5:00
2009-12-10 7:43:55

Retro

Displays the number of seconds since the Unix epoch:

time putn

REXX

Note that REXX only examines the first character of the option and can be in upper or lower case.

say time()              /*  hh:mm:ss  (hh is  00 --> 23).           */
say time('n')           /*      (same as above)                     */
say time('N')           /*      (same as above)                     */
say time('Normal')      /*      (same as above)                     */
say time('nitPick')     /*      (same as above)                     */
 
say time('C')           /*  hh:mmam  or  hh:mmpm  (hh is 0 --> 12). */
say time('Civil')       /*      (same as above)                     */
 
say time('L')           /*  hh:mm:ss.ffffff  (hh is 0 ---> 23).     */
say time('Long')        /*      (same as above)                     */
 
say time('S')           /*   sssss            (0 ---> 86399).       */
say time('Seconds')     /*number of complete seconds since midnight.*/

Ring

 
/* Output:
** Sun                  abbreviated weekday name
** Sunday               full weekday name
** May                  abbreviated month name
** May                  full month name
** 05/24/15 09:58:38    Date & Time
** 24                   Day of the month
** 09                   Hour (24)
** 09                   Hour (12)
** 144                  Day of the year
** 05                   Month of the year
** 58                   Minutes after hour
** AM                   AM or PM
** 38                   Seconds after the hour
** 21                   Week of the year (sun-sat)
** 0                    day of the week
** 05/24/15             date
** 09:58:38             time
** 15                   year of the century
** 2015                 year
** Arab Standard Time   time zone
** %                    percent sign
*/
 
See TimeList()
 

Ruby

version 1.9+

t = Time.now
 
# textual
puts t        # => 2013-12-27 18:00:23 +0900
 
# epoch time
puts t.to_i   # => 1388134823
 
# epoch time with fractional seconds
puts t.to_f   # => 1388134823.9801579
 
# epoch time as a rational (more precision):
puts Time.now.to_r  # 1424900671883862959/1000000000
 

Scala

Library: Scala

Ad hoc solution as REPL scripts:

JDK < 8

println(new java.util.Date)

Output:

Sun Aug 14 22:47:42 EDT 2011

JDK >= 8 (recommended)

println(java.time.LocalTime.now())

Output:

11:32:39.002

Scheme

Works with: Chicken Scheme

(use posix)
(seconds->string (current-seconds))

Output:

"Sat May 16 21:42:47 2009"

Seed7

$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
  include "time.s7i";
 
const proc: main is func
  begin
    writeln(time(NOW));
  end func;

Output:

2009-12-07 17:09:44.687500 UTC+1

SETL

$ Unix time
print(tod);
 
$ Human readable time and date
print(date);

Output:

 
1447628158908
Sun Nov 15 22:55:58 2015
 

Sidef

# textual
say Time.local.ctime;        # => Thu Mar 19 15:10:41 2015
 
# epoch time
say Time.sec;                # => 1426770641
 
# epoch time with fractional seconds
say Time.micro_sec;          # => 1426770641.68409

Smalltalk

Works with: GNU Smalltalk

DateTime now displayNl.

Output:

2011-08-10T00:43:36-0-7:00

Works with: Pharo

DateAndTime now

Output:

2011-08-16T19:40:37-03:00

SNOBOL4

     OUTPUT = DATE()
END

Output:

03/30/2010 20:58:09

SPL

hour,min,sec = #.now()
day,month,year = #.today()
 
#.output(#.str(hour,"00:"),#.str(min,"00:"),#.str(sec,"00.000"))
#.output(day,".",#.str(month,"00"),".",year)

Output:

03:15:34.068
24.08.2017

Swift

import Foundation
 
var ⌚️ = NSDate()
println(⌚️)

Output:

2014-06-22 20:43:42 +0000

Standard ML

print (Date.toString (Date.fromTimeLocal (Time.now ())) ^ "\n")

Tcl

This uses a timestamp that is a number of seconds since the start of the UNIX Epoch.

puts [clock seconds]

More readable forms may be created by formatting the time:

puts [clock format [clock seconds]]

TI-89 BASIC

■ getTime()      {13  28  55}
■ getDate()       {2009  8  13}

Note that the system clock can be turned off, in which case the value returned will remain constant. isClkOn() can be used to check it.

TUSCRIPT

 
$$ MODE TUSCRIPT
time=time()
PRINT time

Output:

2011-04-05 13:45:44

UNIX Shell

date       # Thu Dec  3 15:38:06 PST 2009
 
date +%s   # 1259883518, seconds since the epoch, like C stdlib time(0)

Ursa

# outputs time in milliseconds
import "time"
out (time.getcurrent) endl console

Ursala

A library function, now, ignores its argument and returns the system time as a character string.

#import cli
 
#cast %s
 
main = now 0

Output:

'Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:31:49 +0100'

This string can be converted to seconds since 1970 (ignoring leap seconds) by the library function string_to_time.

Vala

 
var now = new DateTime.now_local();
string now_string = now.to_string();

Output:

2011-11-12T20:23:24-0800

VBA

Debug.Print Now()

Output:

12/12/2013 16:16:16

VBScript

WScript.Echo Now

XPL0

The intrinsics GetReg and SoftInt are used to access DOS and BIOS routines. GetReg returns the address of an array where a copy of the processor's hardware registers are stored. Values (such as $2C00 in the example) can be stored into this array. When SoftInt is called, the values in the array are loaded into the processor's registers and the specified interrupt ($21 in the example) is called.

include c:\cxpl\codes;          \include intrinsic 'code' declarations
 
proc NumOut(N);                 \Output a 2-digit number, including leading zero
int  N;
[if N <= 9 then ChOut(0, ^0);
IntOut(0, N);
]; \NumOut
 
int Reg;
[Reg:= GetReg;                  \get address of array with copy of CPU registers
Reg(0):= $2C00;                 \call DOS function 2C (hex)
SoftInt($21);                   \DOS calls are interrupt 21 (hex)
NumOut(Reg(2) >> 8);            \the high byte of register CX contains the hours
ChOut(0, ^:);
NumOut(Reg(2) & $00FF);         \the low byte of CX contains the minutes
ChOut(0, ^:);
NumOut(Reg(3) >> 8);            \the high byte of DX contains the seconds
ChOut(0, ^.);
NumOut(Reg(3) & $00FF);         \the low byte of DX contains hundreths
CrLf(0);
]

Output:

13:08:26.60

zkl

Time.Clock.time //-->seconds since the epoch (C/OS defined)