Returns the current date as a string (formatted according to the server’s defaults) for the current date.

Returns the current time as a string (not including date, and formatted according to the server defaults).

Returns a formatted time using the given format. The format can either be a time unit or a text describing a longer format. Supported formats are:

’hr:min:sec’ which returns the time in hours, minutes and seconds in the form X hr Y min Z sec.

’h:min:s’ which returns the time in hours, minutes and seconds in the form X h Y min Z s.

’detailed’ which returns the time in seconds and also includes more readable units for longer times.

Sleep for the specified number of milliseconds.

Current time in milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC.

Returns a string describing the approximate computation time of the application. The string can be altered by the method setExpectedComputationTime.

Set the last computation time, overwriting the automatically generated time.

You can use the timeStamp method to record time differences and set the measured time in ms (a long integer).

Returns the last computation time in the given format. The format can either be a time unit or text describing a longer format. Currently supported formats are:

hr:min:sec Returns the time in hours, minutes, and seconds in the format X h Y min Z sec.

h:min:s Returns the time in hours, minutes, and seconds in the format X h Y min Z s.

detailed Returns the time in seconds and also includes more readable units for longer times. This format is localized and the output is translated to the current language setting.

For example, you can retrieve the time in ms by using getLastComputationTime(“ms“).