sttime(3)
NAME
stMktime, stWriteTime - date and time handling
SYNOPSIS
#include <config.h> #include <sttk.h.h> time_tstMktime (char *string); char*stWriteTime (time_t date);
DESCRIPTION
stMktime scans the given string and tries to read a date and time from
it. It understands various formats of date strings. The following is a
list of all valid formats, optional parts in brackets.
- [Tue] Jan 5[,] [19]93
- This includes the standard asctime(3) format.
- Jan 5 With no year given, the year defaults to the current
- year.
- [19]93/01/05 This notation requires month and day represented by
- exactly two digits.
- 5.1.[19]93 This is the usual German notation.
- 5.1. German notation referencing the current year.
- A certain time, given together with the date must always have the following form.
- hours:minutes[:seconds]
- Each of the fields must be an integer value within the proper range (hours: 0-23, minutes and seconds: 0-59). Values below 10 may be written as one digit numbers.
- The time value may be placed anywhere in the date string: at the beginning, at the end, or somewhere in the middle. Any amount of whitespace may be given between a field of the time value and the separating colon. The time is always considered to be local time.
- stWriteTime generates a time string similar to asctime(3) from its date argument.
SEE ALSO
BUGS
- Time Zone Names within the time string (like `MET') are not handled
properly. In most cases they will cause a failure.