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7.6 The DATE module

<day/time-duration>

Sealed class

Summary

The class of objects representing durations in units of microseconds.

Superclasses

<duration>

Init-keywords

days
An instance of <integer>.

hours
An instance of <integer>. Default value: 0.

minutes
An instance of <integer>. Default value: 0.

seconds
An instance of <integer>. Default value: 0.

microseconds
An instance of <integer>. Default value: 0.

Library

system

Module

date

Description

The class of objects representing durations in units of microseconds. It is a subclass of <duration>.

Use this class to represent a number of days and fractions thereof. If you need to represent durations in calendar units of months or years, use <year/month-duration> instead.

Operations

< + - decode-duration encode-day/time-duration

See also

<duration>, page 147

<year/month-duration>, page 152


System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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