Function
Returns the date and time stored in a date object.
decode-date date
=> year month day hours minutes seconds day-of-week time-zone-offset
<date>.
<integer>.
<integer>.
<integer>.
<integer>.
<integer>.
<integer>.
<day-of-week>.
<integer>.
system
date
Returns the date and time stored in date. Note that it does not return the millisecond component of a <date>, but it does return the appropriate <day-of-week>.