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7.6 The DATE module

decode-date

Function

Summary

Returns the date and time stored in a date object.

Signature

decode-date date 
=> year month day hours minutes seconds day-of-week time-zone-offset

Arguments

date
An instance of <date>.

Values

year
An instance of <integer>.

month
An instance of <integer>.

day
An instance of <integer>.

hours
An instance of <integer>.

minutes
An instance of <integer>.

seconds
An instance of <integer>.

day-of-week
An instance of <day-of-week>.

time-zone-offset
An instance of <integer>.

Library

system

Module

date

Description

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>.

See also

encode-date, page 148


System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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