Date

Date is used to retrieve current date and time. You can access this object simply by typing Date.

Example:

// What day is today?
object "Application"
{
    // show the day
    state "main"
    {
        today = Date.year + "-" + f(Date.month) + "-" + f(Date.day);
        Console.print("Today is " + today);
        Application.exit();
    }

    // add a leading zero
    fun f(x)
    {
        if(x >= 10)
            return x;
        else
            return "0" + x;
    }
}

Available since: SurgeScript 0.5.2

Properties

year

year: number, read-only.

The current year.

month

month: number, read-only.

Month of the year (1-12).

day

day: number.

Day of the month (1-31).

hour

hour: number.

Hours since midnight (0-23).

minute

minute: number.

Minutes after the hour (0-59).

second

second: number.

Seconds after the minute (0-59).

weekday

weekday: number.

Days since Sunday (0-6).

unixtime

unixtime: number.

Number of seconds since Jan 1st, 1970 00:00:00 UTC.

Functions

timezoneOffset

timezoneOffset()

The difference, in minutes, from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to the timezone of the host. Example: if your timezone is UTC-03:00, this function returns -180.

Available since: SurgeScript 0.5.2

Returns

The timezone difference in minutes.

toString

toString()

Converts the current date and time to a string. The string is formatted according to the ISO 8601 standard.

Available since: SurgeScript 0.5.2

Returns

The current date and time expressed according to ISO 8601.