Just another update

Task/System-time/AWK/system-time-1.awk

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 $ awk 'BEGIN{print systime(),strftime()}'
-1242401632 Fri May 15 17:33:52  2009

Task/System-time/AWK/system-time-2.awk

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+function dos_date(  cmd,d,t,x) { 	# under MS Windows
+#   cmd = "DATE /T"
+#   cmd | getline d	# Format depends on locale, e.g. MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD
+#   close(cmd)        	# close pipe
+# ##print d
+#   cmd = "TIME /T"
+#   cmd | getline t   	# 13:59
+#   close(cmd) 		
+# ##print t
+#   return d t
+
+    cmd = "echo %DATE% %TIME%"		# this gives better time-resolution
+    cmd | getline x   			# 2014-10-31 20:57:36.84
+    close(cmd)
+    return x
+}
+BEGIN {
+   print "Date and time:", dos_date()
+  #print systime(), strftime()		# gawk only
+}