X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/ebcbc1838c17993801dc53fee28a21d05f92aacc..414b3f2c8793286885e3b999a3911f3b6def630c:/doc/timetable.md?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/timetable.md b/doc/timetable.md index 49fe046..812da43 100644 --- a/doc/timetable.md +++ b/doc/timetable.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# `luatz.timetable` +## `luatz.timetable` {#timetable} Provides an class to represent a time and date. Objects have no concept of timezone or utc offset. @@ -15,29 +15,29 @@ The fields are intentionally compatible with the lua standard library's `os.date - `wday` (optional) timetable components may be outside of their standard range (e.g. a month component of -14) to facilitate arithmetic operations on date components. `:normalise ( )` can be +14) to facilitate arithmetic operations on date components. `:normalise()` can be called to modify components to return to their standard range. Equality and comparisons should work between timetable objects. -### `new ( year , month , day , hour , min , sec , [yday] , [wday] )` +### `new(year, month, day, hour, min, sec[, yday[, [wday]])` {#timetable.new} Returns a new timetable with the given contents. -### `new_from_timestamp ( timestamp )` +### `new_from_timestamp(timestamp)` {#timetable.new_from_timestamp} Returns a new (normalised) timetable, given a timestamp in seconds since the unix epoch of 1970-01-01. -### `:clone ( )` +### `timetable:clone()` {#timetable:clone} Returns a new independent instance of an existing timetable object. -### `:normalise ( )` +### `timetable:normalise()` {#timetable:normalise} Mutates the current object's time and date components so that are integers within 'normal' ranges e.g. `month` is `1`-`12`; `min` is `0`-`59` @@ -51,19 +51,21 @@ e.g. `.hour=10` `.min=100` (100 minutes past 10am) normalises to `.hour=11` `.min=40` -### `:rfc_3339 ( )` and `__tostring` metamethod +### `timetable:rfc_3339()` {#timetable:rfc_3339} Returns the timetable formatted as an rfc-3339 style string. The timezone offset (or Z) is not appended. The ranges of components are not checked, if you want a valid timestamp, -`:normalise ( )` should be called first. +[`:normalise()`](#timetable:normalise) should be called first. +This function is also the `__tostring` metamethod for timetable objects -### `:timestamp ( )` + +### `timetable:timestamp()` {#timetable:timestamp} Returns the timetable as the number of seconds since unix epoch (1970-01-01) as a lua number. -### `:unpack ( )` +### `timetable:unpack()` {#timetable:unpack} Unpacks the timetable object; returns `year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`, `min`, `sec`, `yday`, `wday`