man sttime (Fonctions bibliothèques) - date and time handling
NAME
stMktime, stWriteTime - date and time handling
SYNOPSIS
#include <config.h>
#include <sttk.h.h>
time_t stMktime (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.