How can I get the current UTC time in a Lua script?

Question

How can I get the current UTC time using a Lua script and convert it to human readable text?

Answer 1

Try os.date("!%c"). Here ! means UTC and %c means full date in standard format. For other options, see http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-os.date.

curTime = os.time(); print("os.date(): "..os.date('%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S', curTime));  
print("os.date(!): "..os.date('!%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S GMT', curTime))