XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

[2.0] current-time()

Returns an xs:time object set to the current time.

Syntax

xs:time current-time()

Inputs

None.

Output

An xs:time value set to the current time on the system. The returned value is set to the default timezone. (You can get the details of the default timezone with the context function implicit-timezone()). The current-time() function returns the same value throughout the processing of the stylesheet. If you call current-time() a dozen times throughout your stylesheet, the function returns the same value each time.

Defined in

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 2, “Accessors.”

Example

Here is a stylesheet that displays the current time. It uses the current-time(), format-time(), and implicit-timezone() functions:

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

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>The current time is </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of 
      select="format-time(current-time(), 
              '[h]:[m01] [Pn]')"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;The implicit timezone for the </xsl:text>
    <xsl:text>current context is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="implicit-timezone()"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;The timezone extracted from the </xsl:text>
    <xsl:text>current date and time is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="timezone-from-time(current-time())"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The exciting results from this stylesheet look like this:

The current time is 6:49 a.m. The implicit ...