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This section describes facilities for keeping track of dates and times according to the Gregorian calendar.
There are three representations for date and time information:
* Menu:
* Simple Calendar Time:: | Facilities for manipulating calendar time. |
* High-Resolution Calendar:: | A time representation with greater precision. |
* Broken-down Time:: | Facilities for manipulating local time. |
* Formatting Date and Time:: | Converting times to strings. |
* TZ Variable:: | How users specify the time zone. |
* Time Zone Functions:: | Functions to examine or specify the time zone. |
* Time Functions Example:: | An example program showing use of some of the time functions. |
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