OVERVIEW 

The functions R-UT and W-UT are for reading and writing lisp universal time as strings.

Universal times stored as strings using R-UT and W-UT have the following advantages over normal universal times stored as integers:

• they are human readable and thus less prone to bugs

• they are easier to use  with external databases or other programs that expect times dates encoded as strings

• they are ISO-8601 compliant [by default]

GETTING RW-UT

Get the latest development version from the darcs repo:

Or get the latest release using ASDF-install:

   (asdf-install:install 'rw-ut)

Or simply download a gzipped tarball of a specific release yourself:

• Version 0.1 

DOCUMENTATION

The documentation is at the top of this source file.

 
;;    CL-USER> (defvar now (get-universal-time))
;;    NOW
;;
;;    CL-USER> now
;;    3425557791
;;
;;    CL-USER> (use-package :rw-ut)
;;    T
;;
;;    CL-USER> (w-ut now)
;;    "2008/07/20 15:49:51"
;;
;;    CL-USER> (r-ut *)
;;    3425557791
;;
;;    CL-USER> (eql * now)
;;    T
;;
;;    CL-USER> (w-ut now "MM-DD-YY")
;;    "07-20-08"
;;
;;    CL-USER> (r-ut * "MM-DD-YY")
;;    3425500800
;;
;;    CL-USER> (w-ut * "YYYY/MM/DD)
;;    "2008/07/20"

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