Date and Time

Wall-clock date/time helpers built on the C standard library's struct tm, exposed as ABS_TIME objects.

#include "abscom/abs.h"

Function	Description
var datetime_now(void)	Current local time as an ABS_TIME object.
var strftime_val(const char *fmt, var time_obj)	Format a time object with strftime-style codes; None on non-time input.
var timedelta(int days, int seconds)	The time days and seconds from now (accepts negative values).

var now = datetime_now();
print(strftime_val("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", now));   /* 2026-08-15 14:40:14 */

var tomorrow = timedelta(1, 0);
print(strftime_val("%Y-%m-%d", tomorrow));       /* 2026-08-16 */

strftime_val accepts the usual strftime conversion specifiers (%Y year, %m month, %d day, %H hour, %M minute, %S second, and friends), so you can render dates however you like.

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