Lines Matching refs:samp

102 @samp{last} stands for @math{-1}, @samp{this} stands for 0, and
103 @samp{first} and @samp{next} both stand for 1.  Because the word
104 @samp{second} stands for the unit of time there is no way to write the
105 ordinal number 2, but for convenience @samp{third} stands for 3,
106 @samp{fourth} for 4, @samp{fifth} for 5,
107 @samp{sixth} for 6, @samp{seventh} for 7, @samp{eighth} for 8,
108 @samp{ninth} for 9, @samp{tenth} for 10, @samp{eleventh} for 11 and
109 @samp{twelfth} for 12.
118 abbreviations like @samp{AM}, @samp{DST}, @samp{EST}, @samp{first},
119 @samp{January}, @samp{Sunday}, @samp{tomorrow}, and @samp{year}.
126 standard meaning for time zone items like @samp{IST}.  When using
129 use time zone items other than @samp{UTC} and @samp{Z}.  Here are some
191 @samp{@var{year}-@var{month}-@var{day}} is allowed, where @var{year} is
197 @samp{@var{month}/@var{day}/@var{year}}, popular in the United States,
198 is accepted.  Also @samp{@var{month}/@var{day}}, omitting the year.
202 Literal months may be spelled out in full: @samp{January},
203 @samp{February}, @samp{March}, @samp{April}, @samp{May}, @samp{June},
204 @samp{July}, @samp{August}, @samp{September}, @samp{October},
205 @samp{November} or @samp{December}.  Literal months may be abbreviated
207 It is also permitted to write @samp{Sept} instead of @samp{September}.
242 @samp{@var{hour}:@var{minute}:@var{second}}, where @var{hour} is
245 @samp{.} or @samp{,} and a fraction containing one or more digits.
247 @samp{:@var{second}} can be omitted, in which case it is taken to
254 If the time is followed by @samp{am} or @samp{pm} (or @samp{a.m.}
255 or @samp{p.m.}), @var{hour} is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and
256 @samp{:@var{minute}} may be omitted (taken to be zero).  @samp{am}
257 indicates the first half of the day, @samp{pm} indicates the second
259 midnight is @samp{12am} while noon is @samp{12pm}.
260 (This is the zero-oriented interpretation of @samp{12am} and @samp{12pm},
262 which uses @samp{12m} for noon and @samp{12pm} for midnight.)
267 expressed as @samp{@var{s}@var{hh}@var{mm}}, where @var{s} is @samp{+}
268 or @samp{-}, @var{hh} is a number of zone hours and @var{mm} is a number
274 @samp{+0530} and @samp{+05:30} both stand for the time zone 5.5 hours
280 Either @samp{am}/@samp{pm} or a time zone correction may be specified,
290 by a small set of letters, e.g., @samp{UTC} or @samp{Z}
293 non-daylight-saving time zone by the string @samp{DST} in a separate
298 only for @samp{UTC}; for example, @samp{UTC+05:30} is equivalent to
299 @samp{+05:30}.
301 Time zone items other than @samp{UTC} and @samp{Z}
303 are ambiguous; for example, @samp{EST} has a different meaning in
305 unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like @samp{-0500}, as
321 Days of the week may be spelled out in full: @samp{Sunday},
322 @samp{Monday}, @samp{Tuesday}, @samp{Wednesday}, @samp{Thursday},
323 @samp{Friday} or @samp{Saturday}.  Days may be abbreviated to their
325 abbreviations @samp{Tues} for @samp{Tuesday}, @samp{Wednes} for
326 @samp{Wednesday} and @samp{Thur} or @samp{Thurs} for @samp{Thursday} are
332 supplementary weeks.  It is best used in expression like @samp{third
333 monday}.  In this context, @samp{last @var{day}} or @samp{next
364 The unit of time displacement may be selected by the string @samp{year}
365 or @samp{month} for moving by whole years or months.  These are fuzzy
367 units are @samp{fortnight} which is worth 14 days, @samp{week} worth 7
368 days, @samp{day} worth 24 hours, @samp{hour} worth 60 minutes,
369 @samp{minute} or @samp{min} worth 60 seconds, and @samp{second} or
370 @samp{sec} worth one second.  An @samp{s} suffix on these units is
377 the string @samp{ago} is equivalent to preceding the unit by a
383 The string @samp{tomorrow} is worth one day in the future (equivalent
384 to @samp{day}), the string @samp{yesterday} is worth
385 one day in the past (equivalent to @samp{day ago}).
390 The strings @samp{now} or @samp{today} are relative items corresponding
394 items, like in @samp{12:00 today}.  The string @samp{this} also has
396 date strings like @samp{this thursday}.
403 example, @samp{2003-07-31 -1 month} might evaluate to 2003-07-01,
421 @samp{UTC0} before embarking on calendrical calculations.
450 If you precede a number with @samp{@@}, it represents an internal time
452 decimal point (either @samp{.} or @samp{,}); any excess precision not
462 @samp{@@0} represents this time, @samp{@@1} represents 1970-01-01
465 to @acronym{POSIX}, using negative counts, so that @samp{@@-1}
475 For example, on most systems @samp{@@915148799} represents 1998-12-31
476 23:59:59 @sc{utc}, @samp{@@915148800} represents 1999-01-01 00:00:00
488 start the date with a string of the form @samp{TZ="@var{rule}"}.  The
489 two quote characters (@samp{"}) must be present in the date, and any
496 @samp{TZ="Europe/Paris"} as shown in the following shell transcript:
506 to @samp{Europe/Paris} rules, treating the string @samp{2004-10-31
514 @uref{http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm, @samp{tz} database}.
519 @samp{TZ=":America/New_York"}.
521 The @samp{tz} database includes a wide variety of locations ranging
522 from @samp{Arctic/Longyearbyen} to @samp{Antarctica/South_Pole}, but
524 using a non-@acronym{GNU} host that does not support the @samp{tz}
526 @acronym{POSIX} rules like @samp{UTC0} specify a time zone without