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date:days90

Date/Time Core4 Lua Commands

SYNOPSIS

  1. n = date:days90()
  2. date:setDays90(n)

DESCRIPTION

Older Teratronik systems often handle dates as an offset from 1990, Jan. 1st. These functions are used to set and get this date format.

RETURN VALUE

date:days90() returns the number of days since 1990-01-01.

ERRORS

Raises an error if date is not a date instance.

EXAMPLE

>  >  > 
d = clock.newDate() d.setDays90(1) print(d)
1990-01-02
>  > 
d = clock.currentDate() print(d, d:days90())
2009-08-06 7157

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