Time, Date, and Timers

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after - a timer that initiates an action after a period of time.

at - a timer that initiates an action at a given time, or regularly.

block_timers, unblock_timers - block and unblock timer firing.

cancel - removes a timer from the set of pending timers.

clock, nanoclock - get the OS time.

date - gets the OS date and time; translates seconds into dates.

date_of - is obsolete, see date

every - a timer that initiates an action every number of seconds.

gmtime - transforms Unix time to UTC time and date in ASCII format.

localtime - transforms Unix time to local time and date in ASCII format.

mktime - converts the ASCII date and time data in a tm class to Unix time.

timer_is_proxy - controls timer handling in Gamma.