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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

by Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
16h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

SAY DATETIME

Synopsis

SAY DATETIME datetime escape_digits [format] [timezone]

Says the given datetime, returning early if any of the given DTMF digits are received on the channel. The datetime is the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The optional format argument is the format in which the time should be spoken. (See voicemail.conf for a complete description of the format options.) format defaults to "ABdY 'digits/at' IMp". Acceptable values for timezone can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. timezone defaults to the default time zone of the Asterisk server.

Return values:

-1

Error or hangup

0

Playback completed without being interrupted by an escape digit

value

ASCII value of digit (if pressed), in decimal

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