Introduction
Much like what happened with the image object, the date object encapsulates and provides access to a date value ensuring type safety and simplifing its use.
The date object provides several core functionalities that make it useful to work with.
Date object functions
The following is a list of internal functions the ZPEImage object exposes. All functions are ZPEObjectNativeFunctions unless specified therefore run in native code.
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set_date(string date[, string format) ⇒ boolean -
Sets the date stored within the object. The format helps the system to decide what
format the date value is in. If the format parameter is omitted, the format becomes
yyyy-MM-dd. -
set_to_now() ⇒ string - Sets the date stored within the object to now. It then returns the date as a string.
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convert_to_string() ⇒ string - Outputs the date in a specified format to a string.
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date_diff(object d1[, string format]) ⇒ int - Compares this date against another. The format value is optional but if specified it can have one of four values: hours, minutes, seconds or days. This lets the function know what to return the number of. By default the format is days.
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hour() ⇒ int - Returns the hour value of the date.
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minute() ⇒ int - Returns the minute value of the date.
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second() ⇒ int - Returns the second value of the date.
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day() ⇒ int - Returns the day value of the date.
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month() ⇒ int - Returns the month value of the date.
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year() ⇒ int - Returns the year value of the date.
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time() ⇒ int -
Returns a long integer representing the current epoch time.
Added in 1.8.7
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