2012/1/2 Adrien Piérard pierarda@iro.umontreal.ca:
Another approach which may be quicker to write (if you don't want to do the computations yourself) but is not portable nor precise is to call `date > somefile` with shell-command and then to read somefile…
Or just call (with-input-from-process "date" read-line)
Cheers,
P!