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strftime()

Important

Deprecated in 5.0.

Please use format() method of DateTime class.

 
strftime(string, time) => String

Formats a Unix timestamp, and returns a string according to given formatting rules.

Table 1. Parameters

string

String

Formatting string - see this for available options http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/

time

Integer

UNIX time (number of seconds since epoch).
Return

Formatted time as a string.

Example
println(strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", time())); //Will print: "2016-01-19 12:14"
println(strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M - timezone %Z - offset from UTC - %z", time())); //Will print: "2016-01-19 12:14 - timezone CET - offset from UTC - +0100"