SystemClockClass Class Reference

Public Member Functions
DateTime	now (TimeZone timeType=eTZ_Local)
	Get the current date and time. More...
void	setTime (time_t time, TimeZone timeType=eTZ_Local)
	Set the system clock's time. More...
String	getSystemTimeString (TimeZone timeType=eTZ_Local)
	Get current time as a string. More...
bool	setTimeZone (double localTimezoneOffset)
	Sets the local time zone offset. More...

Member Function Documentation

String SystemClockClass::getSystemTimeString

(

TimeZone

timeType = eTZ_Local

)

Get current time as a string.

Parameters

timeType

Time zone to present time as, i.e. return local or UTC time

Return values

String

Current time in format: dd.mm.yy hh:mm:ss

Note

Date separator may be changed by adding #define DT_DATE_SEPARATOR "/" to source code

DateTime SystemClockClass::now

(

TimeZone

timeType = eTZ_Local

)

Get the current date and time.

Parameters

timeType

Time zone to use (UTC / local)

Return values

DateTime

Current date and time

void SystemClockClass::setTime	(	time_t	time,
		TimeZone	timeType = eTZ_Local
	)

Set the system clock's time.

Parameters

time	Unix time to set clock to (quantity of seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01)
timeType	Time zone of Unix time, i.e. is time provided as local or UTC?

Note

System time is always stored as local timezone time

bool SystemClockClass::setTimeZone

(

double

localTimezoneOffset

)

Sets the local time zone offset.

Parameters

localTimezoneOffset

Offset from UTC of local time zone in hours (-12..+12)

Return values

bool	True on success

Todo:

Why does this need to be set to 2 for UK during winter?

Note

Supports whole hour and fraction of hour offsets from -12 hours to +12 hours