[erlang-questions] formatting timestamps

[Joel Reymont]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/calendar.html#now_to_universal_time-1

This does the trick, courtesy of Filipe Manana:

timestamp(Now) ->
    {_, _, Micros} = Now,
    {{YY, MM, DD}, {Hour, Min, Sec}} = calendar:now_to_local_time(Now),
    io_lib:format("~4..0w-~2..0w-~2..0w ~2..0w:~2..0w:~2..0w.~p",
                  [YY, MM, DD, Hour, Min, Sec, Micros]).

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