<-- Ascii format for the date A bang at the left inlet will tell [unix_time] to get the current Unix timestamp and send it to the outlets. the time and date in ASCII format. \$2 = number of seconds since last midnight \$1 = the day number, where 0 stands for 1 january 1970 This object returns a Unix timestamp for the current time, which means it's the amount of time since 1 january 1970 at midnight. This is provided in three different ways (see below). \$3 = number of microseconds since last second boundary (probably not precise to the closest microsecond) \$2 = month number (1 stands for january) \$1 = year number (2009 stands for 2009) \$3 = day number (1 stands for 1st) \$4 = hour number (0 stands for midnight, 23 for 11 PM) \$5 = minutes (0 to 59) \$6 = seconds (0 to 59)