getting time and date?

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From: David.Anderson@CMU-CS-K
Can anyone tell me how to get the time of day and date? This doesn't seem
to be documented -- at least I couldn't find it in Inside Macintosh. I
found some gibberish about international formats, but nothing about how it
all works.