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hour

Returns the hour of the current time or of a given unix time.

Keyboard Maestro: HOUR

Details #

hour(time?) takes zero or one argument and returns a number: 0 to 23 on the 24-hour clock.

With no argument it reads the current time. With an argument, which is a unix time in seconds (the kind now and time return), it reads that moment instead. It always uses the Mac's local time zone.

Parameters #

Takes 0 to 1 argument. {{ hour(text?) }}

Examples #

hour()
→ 9
hour(1000000000)
→ 20
hour(time(2026, 10, 24, 15, 30))
→ 15

Gotchas #

  • Anything that isn't a number is an error: hour() needs a number, got text.

  • The time must be in seconds, not milliseconds: a value in milliseconds lands tens of thousands of years in the future.