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From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Time of Day in troff (and .TH in LaTeX)
Message-ID: <512@elan.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 19:55:20 GMT
References: <16810@cos.com>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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From article <16810@cos.com>, by duc@cos.com (Duc Kim Nguyen):
> 
> (1) troff: how do I get time of day ?  Similar to to get date from
>     troff, number registers dy, mo and yr, is there some thing like
>     hr, mi, se (for hour, minute, second) ?

Try this!

	.sy /bin/date +".nr hr %H%n.nr mi %M%n.nr se %S" > /tmp/date\n($$
	.so /tmp/date\n($$
	.sy rm -f /tmp/date\n($$

Ken Greer
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