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current-time-stringcurrent-timefloat-timetime-to-seconds‘(current-time-string) => "Fri Nov 1 15:59:49 2019"’
Returns the current time7 as a human-readable string. The format does not
vary for the initial part of the string, which contains the day of week,
month, day of month, and time of day in that order: the number of characters
used for these fields is always the same. It is typically more convenient to
use format-time-string than to extract fields from the output of
current-time-string.
The optional argument ‘ZONE’ defaults to the current time zone rule.
This function returns the current time as a Lisp timestamp in the form8:
This function returns the current time as a floating-point number of seconds since the epoch. Since the result is floating point, it may not be exact. Do not use this function if precise time stamps are required.
time-to-seconds is an alias for this function.