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tostring(date)

Date/Time Core4 Lua Commands

SYNOPSIS

str = tostring(date)

DESCRIPTION

A date in string context returns the date formatted as per ISO 8601 extended format.

RETURN VALUE

A string formatted as "YYYY-MM-DD". If date is not valid, returns the string "????-??-??".

ERRORS

Raises an error if date is not a date instance.

EXAMPLE

>  > 
d = clock.currentDate() print (d)
2009-08-06

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