[Zope] Getting the epoch time as an integer

[Marcus Collins]

Use <dtml-var "_.int(ZopeTime())">

This bypasses the string representation and returns the date as a number of
seconds since the epoch

HTH,

-- Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw@kanga.nu]
> Sent: 24 January 2000 09:00
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Getting the epoch time as an integer
> 
> 
> 
> How do I get the current time as the number of seconds since the
> Epoch?
> 
> I know I can use ZopeTime in various interesting ways to get a
> pretty string that expresses the current time/date in human readable
> format.  I don't want that.  I want the raw integer number of
> seconds since 1970.  I've been thru the HOW-TO, thru the DTML guide
> and all the option and format strings and I just don't see it (or
> I'm going blind).  Surely there's a way to get just the raw time_t?
> 
> -- 
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