01-12-2010
Hi,
I don't think I can add much to this observation, other than it is an example of how absurd the cmd shell is! I have wrestled with this from time to time. It should be such an easy thing to just ask for the current time, right?
The env variables DATE and TIME are set at .cmd-file execution start. But not entirely! If You have a script that runs over several minutes it *may* change! Or if You make a "call" to another script (that does echo %DATE% %TIME%), but they may simply
inherit the callers values, I don't recall correctly right now, but please try
If You use TIME You get an interactive command, but it shows You the "correct" time. If You use TIME /T it will only display HH:MM !
If You use TIME < NUL (instead of giving it the output of VER which is just garbage for the TIME command, that's why it works) it will give You an ugly prompt, so You will have to filter it.
So bloody stupid!
And don't get me started on such a simple thing as sleep... arrrrgh!
/Grrrr
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TIME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual TIME(2)
NAME
time - get time in seconds
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
time_t time(time_t *t);
DESCRIPTION
time() returns the time as the number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).
If t is non-NULL, the return value is also stored in the memory pointed to by t.
RETURN VALUE
On success, the value of time in seconds since the Epoch is returned. On error, ((time_t) -1) is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EFAULT t points outside your accessible address space.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX does not specify any error conditions.
NOTES
POSIX.1 defines seconds since the Epoch using a formula that approximates the number of seconds between a specified time and the Epoch.
This formula takes account of the facts that all years that are evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, but years that are evenly divisible
by 100 are not leap years unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years. This value is not the same as
the actual number of seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds and because system clocks are not required to be syn-
chronized to a standard reference. The intention is that the interpretation of seconds since the Epoch values be consistent; see
POSIX.1-2008 Rationale A.4.15 for further rationale.
SEE ALSO
date(1), gettimeofday(2), ctime(3), ftime(3), time(7)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2011-09-09 TIME(2)