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.TH "BSON_APPEND_NOW_UTC" "3" "2016\(hy10\(hy12" "libbson"
.SH NAME
bson_append_now_utc() \- The bson_append_now_utc() function is a helper to get the current date and time in UTC and append it to bson as a BSON_TYPE_DATE_TIME element.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.nf
.nf
bool
bson_append_now_utc (bson_t     *bson,
                     const char *key,
                     int         key_length);
.fi
.fi

.SH "PARAMETERS"

.TP
.B
bson
A
.B bson_t
.
.LP
.TP
.B
key
An ASCII C string containing the name of the field.
.LP
.TP
.B
key_length
The length of
.B key
in bytes, or \(hy1 to determine the length with
.B strlen(3)
.
.LP

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

The
.B bson_append_now_utc(3)
function is a helper to get the current date and time in UTC and append it to
.B bson
as a BSON_TYPE_DATE_TIME element.

This function calls
.B bson_append_date_time(3)
internally.

.SH "RETURNS"

true if the operation was applied successfully, otherwise false and
.B bson
should be discarded.


.B
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of libbson.
Please report any bugs at https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER.