Return the current time of day on a given time-scale.

Arguments:

TimeScale scale

The type of time wanted, from:

• UTC - Universal Coordinated Time.
• LST - Local Sidereal Time.

Example 1:

The following example displays the current local sidereal time in hours minutes and seconds.

 print $time(LST)

Example 2:

The following example halts script execution until the same time tomorrow.

 Date d = $tomorrow + $time(utc)
 until $date > $d

Note that if this example were changed to:

 until $date > $tomorrow + $time(utc)

the script would never resume because the until command continually re-executes its arguments, and tomorrow would always remain a day in the future.