Get UTC date time and convert to bytes using VisualLisp

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

I'm new to AutoLisp. I am wondering if there is a way to get DateTime in UTC. 
I know we can use CDate and Date but it only return PC date.

And also how to convert Date Time to bytes?

Thank you so much 

[hencoop]

I'm not sure of exactly what you are looking for but DOSLIB from Robert McNeel & Associates has some date tools (and lots of other good tools) that could help you.

[Anonymous]

I need to get current UTC datetime with autolisp.

I tried common lisp comand use (get-universal-time) . It will return 

                        ; error: no function definition: GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME

Now my code is 

(defun c:testing
  (setq time (rtos (getvar "CDATE")))
  (princ)
  (princ time)  
  (princ)
)

It returns 

20170329.0941  (current PC datetime)

I need to return 

20170329.0141  (current UTC datetime)

[dbroad]

If you're trying to get a time 8 hours earlier in a string similar to CDATE, then this should work:

(menucmd "M=$(edtime,$(-,$(getvar,date),0.3333333333),YYYYMODD\".\"HHMMSSMSEC)")