| brief-weekday | (brief-weekday second-count) | Given an integer, second-count, return the weekday as a brief string, of the time second-count. |
| danish-week-number | (danish-week-number sc) | Given a number sc, return the week number in which sc i located. |
| date-ok? | (date-ok? x) | Return whether x is a legal date string (of the form "ddmmyyyy") Exact determination, including february and leap years. |
| date-string | (date-string second-count) | Return the date, in the format "ddmmyyyy" of second-count, which represents the time in seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. |
| date-time | (date-time second-count) | Given an integer, second-cound, return a list of two strings: (date time). |
| date-time-one-string | (date-time-one-string second-count) | Return a single string that pretty prints the time represented by second count. |
| day-of-time | (day-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the days of a decoded time list. |
| days-in-month | (days-in-month month year) | Return the number of days in month and year |
| get-month-name | (get-month-name month-number) | Return the month name of month-number. |
| hour-of-time | (hour-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the hour of a decoded time list. |
| hours-minutes-decode-string | (hours-minutes-decode-string hour-minute-string) | Decode a string of the form "h:m" or "h.m" to a list of the form (h m). |
| hours-minutes-seconds-decode | (hours-minutes-seconds-decode second-count) | Return a list of (hours minutues seconds) given an integer second-count. |
| leap-year | (leap-year y) | Return whether y is a leap year. |
| minute-of-time | (minute-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the minutes of a decoded time list. |
| month-of-time | (month-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the month of a decoded time list. |
| present-time-interval | (present-time-interval second-count) | Return a string which presens the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds of second-count |
| second-count | (second-count y mo d h mi s) | Given date and time in terms of year y, month mo, day d, hour h, minutes mi, and seconds s, caluculate the second count. |
| second-of-time | (seconds-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the seconds of a decoded time list. |
| seconds-in-a-day | seconds-in-a-day | The number of seconds in a day. |
| seconds-in-a-leap-year | seconds-in-a-leap-year | The number of seconds in a leap year. |
| seconds-in-a-normal-month | seconds-in-a-normal-month | The number of seconds in a 30-day month. |
| seconds-in-a-normal-year | seconds-in-a-normal-year | The number of seconds in a non-leap year. |
| seconds-in-a-week | seconds-in-a-week | The number of seconds in a week. |
| seconds-in-an-hour | seconds-in-an-hour | The number of seconds in an hour. |
| time-decode | (time-decode n) | Given an integer n, which is the number of second since january 1, 1970, return a list: (year month day minutes seconds). |
| time-encode | (time-encode y mo d h mi s) | An alias of second-count - encode year, month, day, hour, minutes, and seconds to an integer. |
| time-interval | (time-interval second-count) | Return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds from second-count. |
| time-ok? | (time-ok? x) | Return whether x is a legal time string (of the form "hhmm") |
| time-string | (time-string second-count) | Return the date, in the format "ddmmyyyy" of second-count, which represents the time in seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. |
| time-zone-info | time-zone-info | Defines the time-zone. |
| transform-year-month-day-hour-minutes-strings | (transform-year-month-day-hour-minutes-strings date time) | Transform date and time strings to a second count (a large integer number of seconds elapsed since january 1, 1970). |
| weekday | (weekday second-count) | Given an integer, second-count, return the weekday of the time second-count. |
| weekday-number | (weekday-number second-count) | return the weekday-number of second-count (an integer). |
| when-generated | (when-generated) | Return a string that describes the current time as generation time. |
| year-month-day-decode-string | (year-month-day-decode-string year-month-day-string) | Decode a string of the form "y-m-d" to a list of the form (y m d). |
| year-of-time | (year-of-time decoded-time-list) | Return the year of a decoded time list. |
   1 Time zone and Daylight Saving Time correction. | |||
| time-zone-info | |||
| Form | time-zone-info | ||
| Description | Defines the time-zone. We also use this variable to adjust for daylight saving time. This is, however, kind of a hack. How many hours in front relative to Greenwich, England. The US east coast: 5. California 8. Denmark -1 If the encoded time is already corrected on your system, time-zone-info must be 0. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-zone-info | |
 2 Basic time functions. | |||
| According to the conventions used in LAML, the function current-time is assumed to return the current time, represented as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00. In this section there are functions that encode and decode a number of seconds to and from a conventional time representation (in terms of year, month, day, hour, minutes, second). | |||
| time-decode | |||
| Form | (time-decode n) | ||
| Description | Given an integer n, which is the number of second since january 1, 1970, return a list: (year month day minutes seconds). The opposite function is called second-count | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-decode | |
| second-count | |||
| Form | (second-count y mo d h mi s) | ||
| Description | Given date and time in terms of year y, month mo, day d, hour h, minutes mi, and seconds s, caluculate the second count. The second-count function compensates for time zone. The opposite function is called date-time. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | second-count | |
| time-encode | |||
| Form | (time-encode y mo d h mi s) | ||
| Description | An alias of second-count - encode year, month, day, hour, minutes, and seconds to an integer. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-encode | |
| 3 Time selectors. | |||
| The selectors in this section work on decoded time lists. It means that the selectors just return a given element from the decoded list representation of time. | |||
| year-of-time | |||
| Form | (year-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the year of a decoded time list. An integer greater or equal to 1970. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | year-of-time | |
| month-of-time | |||
| Form | (month-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the month of a decoded time list. An integer in the interval 1..12 | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | month-of-time | |
| day-of-time | |||
| Form | (day-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the days of a decoded time list. An integer in the interval 1..31 | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | day-of-time | |
| hour-of-time | |||
| Form | (hour-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the hour of a decoded time list. An integer in the interval 0..23 | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | hour-of-time | |
| minute-of-time | |||
| Form | (minute-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the minutes of a decoded time list. An integer in the interval 0..59. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | minute-of-time | |
| second-of-time | |||
| Form | (seconds-of-time decoded-time-list) | ||
| Description | Return the seconds of a decoded time list. An integer in the interval 0..59. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | second-of-time | |
| 4 Week days. | |||
| The functions in this section deal with week days. Both English and Danish week day names are supported the the variable language-preference in laml.scm. | |||
| weekday | |||
| Form | (weekday second-count) | ||
| Description | Given an integer, second-count, return the weekday of the time second-count. Returns a string. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | weekday | |
| brief-weekday | |||
| Form | (brief-weekday second-count) | ||
| Description | Given an integer, second-count, return the weekday as a brief string, of the time second-count. Returns a string. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | brief-weekday | |
| 5 Week number and week day number. | |||
| The functions in this section deal with week numbering and, more simple, week day numbering. | |||
| danish-week-number | |||
| Form | (danish-week-number sc) | ||
| Description | Given a number sc, return the week number in which sc i located. Weeknumbers are treated by means of Danish weeknumber rules | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | danish-week-number | |
| weekday-number | |||
| Form | (weekday-number second-count) | ||
| Description | Return the weekday-number of second-count (an integer). Monday is day number 1 in the week, sunday is day number 7. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | weekday-number | |
| 6 Time pretty printing. | |||
| The functions in this section return pretty printed string representation of time. | |||
| date-time | |||
| Form | (date-time second-count) | ||
| Description | Given an integer, second-cound, return a list of two strings: (date time). This is useful in cases you need to print the data or time as a string. Takes the variable language preference into account. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | date-time | |
| date-time-one-string | |||
| Form | (date-time-one-string second-count) | ||
| Description | Return a single string that pretty prints the time represented by second count. Takes the variable language preference into account. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | date-time-one-string | |
| when-generated | |||
| Form | (when-generated) | ||
| Description | Return a string that describes the current time as generation time. Takes the variable language-preference into account. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | when-generated | |
| similar function in xhtml1.0-convenience.scm | when-modified | ||
| 7 Time interval functions. | |||
| time-interval | |||
| Form | (time-interval second-count) | ||
| Description | Return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds from second-count. A list of integers is returned. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-interval | |
| present-time-interval | |||
| Form | (present-time-interval second-count) | ||
| Description | Return a string which presens the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds of second-count | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | present-time-interval | |
| 8 Conventional string representation of time. | |||
| This section contains a number of functions that deal with dates and time as strings in the formats such as "ddmmyyyy" and "hhmm". The seconds are not part of the string representation. | |||
| transform-year-month-day-hour-minutes-strings | |||
| Form | (transform-year-month-day-hour-minutes-strings date time) | ||
| Description | Transform date and time strings to a second count (a large integer number of seconds elapsed since january 1, 1970). The date parameter is a string of the form "ddmmyyyy" (eight ciffers). The time parameter is of the form "hhmm" (four ciffers). Assumes as a prefix that date and time represent a legal point in time. Use date-ok? and time-ok? to assure this. Return #f if date is blank (or if both date and time is blank). | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | transform-year-month-day-hour-minutes-strings | |
| date-string | |||
| Form | (date-string second-count) | ||
| Description | Return the date, in the format "ddmmyyyy" of second-count, which represents the time in seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | date-string | |
| time-string | |||
| Form | (time-string second-count) | ||
| Description | Return the date, in the format "ddmmyyyy" of second-count, which represents the time in seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-string | |
| date-ok? | |||
| Form | (date-ok? x) | ||
| Description | Return whether x is a legal date string (of the form "ddmmyyyy") Exact determination, including february and leap years. Uses days-in-month from the time library. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | date-ok? | |
| time-ok? | |||
| Form | (time-ok? x) | ||
| Description | Return whether x is a legal time string (of the form "hhmm") | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | time-ok? | |
| hours-minutes-decode-string | |||
| Form | (hours-minutes-decode-string hour-minute-string) | ||
| Description | Decode a string of the form "h:m" or "h.m" to a list of the form (h m). Does also accept the juxtaposition "hm" in which case m is taken as the last two ciffers. Given for instance "12:35", "12.35" or "1235" return (12 35). | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | hours-minutes-decode-string | |
| year-month-day-decode-string | |||
| Form | (year-month-day-decode-string year-month-day-string) | ||
| Description | Decode a string of the form "y-m-d" to a list of the form (y m d). A proper list of three integers. Given for instance "2005-9-12", return the list (2005 9 12) representing September 12, 2005. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | year-month-day-decode-string | |
 9 Underlying time related constants and functions. | |||
| In this section there is a number of auxiliary time functions. In addition, we document a number of time related constants. | |||
| seconds-in-a-normal-year | |||
| Form | seconds-in-a-normal-year | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in a non-leap year. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-a-normal-year | |
| seconds-in-a-leap-year | |||
| Form | seconds-in-a-leap-year | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in a leap year. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-a-leap-year | |
| seconds-in-a-normal-month | |||
| Form | seconds-in-a-normal-month | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in a 30-day month. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-a-normal-month | |
| seconds-in-a-week | |||
| Form | seconds-in-a-week | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in a week. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-a-week | |
| seconds-in-a-day | |||
| Form | seconds-in-a-day | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in a day. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-a-day | |
| seconds-in-an-hour | |||
| Form | seconds-in-an-hour | ||
| Description | The number of seconds in an hour. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | seconds-in-an-hour | |
| get-month-name | |||
| Form | (get-month-name month-number) | ||
| Description | Return the month name of month-number. January is number one. The result depends on the free variable language-preference. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | get-month-name | |
| applied variable | language-preference | ||
| leap-year | |||
| Form | (leap-year y) | ||
| Description | Return whether y is a leap year. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | leap-year | |
| days-in-month | |||
| Form | (days-in-month month year) | ||
| Description | Return the number of days in month and year | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | days-in-month | |
| hours-minutes-seconds-decode | |||
| Form | (hours-minutes-seconds-decode second-count) | ||
| Description | Return a list of (hours minutues seconds) given an integer second-count. | ||
| See also | Scheme source file | hours-minutes-seconds-decode | |