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authorKen Barber <ken@bob.sh>2011-07-29 22:18:56 +0100
committerKen Barber <ken@bob.sh>2011-07-29 22:18:56 +0100
commit19313b43ea04066a88a0b78e83650ac52785e2e9 (patch)
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parentf9634b7f9b03be86e25dc740cdcda754a0d2bf7d (diff)
(#3) Apply missing documentation to more functions.
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module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:strftime, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
+This function returns formatted time.
+
+*Examples:*
+
+To return the time since epoch:
+
+ strftime("%s")
+
+To return the date:
+
+ strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+
+*Format meaning:*
+
+ %a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')
+ %A - The full weekday name (``Sunday'')
+ %b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')
+ %B - The full month name (``January'')
+ %c - The preferred local date and time representation
+ %C - Century (20 in 2009)
+ %d - Day of the month (01..31)
+ %D - Date (%m/%d/%y)
+ %e - Day of the month, blank-padded ( 1..31)
+ %F - Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format)
+ %h - Equivalent to %b
+ %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
+ %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
+ %j - Day of the year (001..366)
+ %k - hour, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23)
+ %l - hour, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..12)
+ %L - Millisecond of the second (000..999)
+ %m - Month of the year (01..12)
+ %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)
+ %n - Newline (\n)
+ %N - Fractional seconds digits, default is 9 digits (nanosecond)
+ %3N millisecond (3 digits)
+ %6N microsecond (6 digits)
+ %9N nanosecond (9 digits)
+ %p - Meridian indicator (``AM'' or ``PM'')
+ %P - Meridian indicator (``am'' or ``pm'')
+ %r - time, 12-hour (same as %I:%M:%S %p)
+ %R - time, 24-hour (%H:%M)
+ %s - Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
+ %S - Second of the minute (00..60)
+ %t - Tab character (\t)
+ %T - time, 24-hour (%H:%M:%S)
+ %u - Day of the week as a decimal, Monday being 1. (1..7)
+ %U - Week number of the current year,
+ starting with the first Sunday as the first
+ day of the first week (00..53)
+ %v - VMS date (%e-%b-%Y)
+ %V - Week number of year according to ISO 8601 (01..53)
+ %W - Week number of the current year,
+ starting with the first Monday as the first
+ day of the first week (00..53)
+ %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
+ %x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
+ %X - Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
+ %y - Year without a century (00..99)
+ %Y - Year with century
+ %z - Time zone as hour offset from UTC (e.g. +0900)
+ %Z - Time zone name
+ %% - Literal ``%'' character
EOS
) do |arguments|