sttime3
Date and time handling
Usage
#include <config.h>
#include <sttk.h.h>
time_t stMktime (char *string);
char* stWriteTime (time_t date);
Overview
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
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This includes the standard asctime(3) format. |
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Jan 5
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With no year given, the year defaults to the current year. |
[19]93/01/05
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This notation requires month and day represented by exactly two digits. |
5.1.[19]93
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This is the usual German notation. |
5.1.
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German notation referencing the current year. |
A certain time, given together with the date must always have the following form.
- hours:minutes[:seconds]
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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.
Releases
Unchanged in 13 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink).