XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

[2.0] timezone-from-time()

Given an xs:time value, returns its timezone component.

Syntax

xs:dayTimeDuration? timezone-from-time(xs:time?)

Input

An xs:time value.

Output

An xs:dayTimeDuration value representing the timezone component of the given xs:time value. If the argument is the empty sequence, this function returns the empty sequence.

Defined in

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 10.5, “Component Extraction Functions on Durations, Dates and Times.”

Example

This stylesheet illustrates the timezone-from-time() function:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- timezone-from-time.xsl -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>&#xA;Extracting the timezone from an xs:time:</xsl:text>
    <xsl:variable name="currentTime" as="xs:time" select="current-time()"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;  The current time is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$currentTime"/>

    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;  The current timezone is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="timezone-from-time($currentTime)"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;    The timezone is also known as </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="format-time($currentTime, '[ZN]')"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The stylesheet creates these results:

Extracting the timezone component from an xs:time:

  The current time is: 05:15:30.423-05:00

  The current timezone is: -PT5H
    The timezone is also known as EST

Notice that the first result was generated ...