$time

Returns the current time in hour:minute:second format, or whatever format specified.

$time(format)

The following characters are recognized in the format parameter string.

NAME         USAGE  EXAMPLE
Year         yy     99
             yyyy   1999
Month        m      1
             mm     01
             mmm    Jan
             mmmm   January
Day          d      1
             dd     01
             ddd    Mon
             dddd   Monday
Hours        h      5
             hh     05
             H      13
             HH     13
Minutes      n      1
             nn     01
Seconds      s      1
             ss     01
AM/PM        t      a/p
             tt     am/pm
             T      A/P
             TT     AM/PM
Ordinal      oo     st/nd/rd/th
Timezone     z      +0
             zz     +0000
             zzz    +0000 GMT

Example

$time  ;returned 11:50:34 just now
$time(yyyy)  ;returned 2005 just now
$time(HH:nn dddd dd/mm/yyyy)  ;returned 11:50 Saturday 26/11/2005 just now

See Also

$asctime and $ctime is often used for more detailed date/time information.