Lines Matching refs:samp

95 @samp{last} stands for @math{-1}, @samp{this} stands for 0, and
96 @samp{first} and @samp{next} both stand for 1.  Because the word
97 @samp{second} stands for the unit of time there is no way to write the
98 ordinal number 2, but for convenience @samp{third} stands for 3,
99 @samp{fourth} for 4, @samp{fifth} for 5,
100 @samp{sixth} for 6, @samp{seventh} for 7, @samp{eighth} for 8,
101 @samp{ninth} for 9, @samp{tenth} for 10, @samp{eleventh} for 11 and
102 @samp{twelfth} for 12.
111 abbreviations like @samp{AM}, @samp{DST}, @samp{EST}, @samp{first},
112 @samp{January}, @samp{Sunday}, @samp{tomorrow}, and @samp{year}.
119 standard meaning for time zone items like @samp{IST}.  When using
122 use time zone items other than @samp{UTC} and @samp{Z}.  Here are some
184 @samp{@var{year}-@var{month}-@var{day}} is allowed, where @var{year} is
190 @samp{@var{month}/@var{day}/@var{year}}, popular in the United States,
191 is accepted.  Also @samp{@var{month}/@var{day}}, omitting the year.
195 Literal months may be spelled out in full: @samp{January},
196 @samp{February}, @samp{March}, @samp{April}, @samp{May}, @samp{June},
197 @samp{July}, @samp{August}, @samp{September}, @samp{October},
198 @samp{November} or @samp{December}.  Literal months may be abbreviated
200 It is also permitted to write @samp{Sept} instead of @samp{September}.
235 @samp{@var{hour}:@var{minute}:@var{second}}, where @var{hour} is
238 @samp{.} or @samp{,} and a fraction containing one or more digits.
240 @samp{:@var{second}} can be omitted, in which case it is taken to
247 If the time is followed by @samp{am} or @samp{pm} (or @samp{a.m.}
248 or @samp{p.m.}), @var{hour} is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and
249 @samp{:@var{minute}} may be omitted (taken to be zero).  @samp{am}
250 indicates the first half of the day, @samp{pm} indicates the second
252 midnight is @samp{12am} while noon is @samp{12pm}.
253 (This is the zero-oriented interpretation of @samp{12am} and @samp{12pm},
255 which uses @samp{12m} for noon and @samp{12pm} for midnight.)
260 expressed as @samp{@var{s}@var{hh}@var{mm}}, where @var{s} is @samp{+}
261 or @samp{-}, @var{hh} is a number of zone hours and @var{mm} is a number
267 @samp{+0530} and @samp{+05:30} both stand for the time zone 5.5 hours
273 Either @samp{am}/@samp{pm} or a time zone correction may be specified,
283 by a small set of letters, e.g., @samp{UTC} or @samp{Z}
286 non-daylight-saving time zone by the string @samp{DST} in a separate
291 only for @samp{UTC}; for example, @samp{UTC+05:30} is equivalent to
292 @samp{+05:30}.
294 Time zone items other than @samp{UTC} and @samp{Z}
296 are ambiguous; for example, @samp{EST} has a different meaning in
298 unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like @samp{-0500}, as
314 Days of the week may be spelled out in full: @samp{Sunday},
315 @samp{Monday}, @samp{Tuesday}, @samp{Wednesday}, @samp{Thursday},
316 @samp{Friday} or @samp{Saturday}.  Days may be abbreviated to their
318 abbreviations @samp{Tues} for @samp{Tuesday}, @samp{Wednes} for
319 @samp{Wednesday} and @samp{Thur} or @samp{Thurs} for @samp{Thursday} are
325 supplementary weeks.  It is best used in expression like @samp{third
326 monday}.  In this context, @samp{last @var{day}} or @samp{next
357 The unit of time displacement may be selected by the string @samp{year}
358 or @samp{month} for moving by whole years or months.  These are fuzzy
360 units are @samp{fortnight} which is worth 14 days, @samp{week} worth 7
361 days, @samp{day} worth 24 hours, @samp{hour} worth 60 minutes,
362 @samp{minute} or @samp{min} worth 60 seconds, and @samp{second} or
363 @samp{sec} worth one second.  An @samp{s} suffix on these units is
370 the string @samp{ago} is equivalent to preceding the unit by a
376 The string @samp{tomorrow} is worth one day in the future (equivalent
377 to @samp{day}), the string @samp{yesterday} is worth
378 one day in the past (equivalent to @samp{day ago}).
383 The strings @samp{now} or @samp{today} are relative items corresponding
387 items, like in @samp{12:00 today}.  The string @samp{this} also has
389 date strings like @samp{this thursday}.
396 example, @samp{2003-07-31 -1 month} might evaluate to 2003-07-01,
414 @samp{UTC0} before embarking on calendrical calculations.
443 If you precede a number with @samp{@@}, it represents an internal time
445 decimal point (either @samp{.} or @samp{,}); any excess precision not
455 @samp{@@0} represents this time, @samp{@@1} represents 1970-01-01
458 to @acronym{POSIX}, using negative counts, so that @samp{@@-1}
468 For example, on most systems @samp{@@915148799} represents 1998-12-31
469 23:59:59 @sc{utc}, @samp{@@915148800} represents 1999-01-01 00:00:00
481 start the date with a string of the form @samp{TZ="@var{rule}"}.  The
482 two quote characters (@samp{"}) must be present in the date, and any
489 @samp{TZ="Europe/Paris"} as shown in the following shell transcript:
499 to @samp{Europe/Paris} rules, treating the string @samp{2004-10-31
507 @uref{http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm, @samp{tz} database}.
512 @samp{TZ=":America/New_York"}.
514 The @samp{tz} database includes a wide variety of locations ranging
515 from @samp{Arctic/Longyearbyen} to @samp{Antarctica/South_Pole}, but
517 using a non-@acronym{GNU} host that does not support the @samp{tz}
519 @acronym{POSIX} rules like @samp{UTC0} specify a time zone without