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 from: @(#)strftime.3 5.12 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
 $Id: strftime.3,v 1.4 1993/12/15 20:33:00 jtc Exp $

 NEWSTRFTIME 3
 NAME
strftime - format date and time
 SYNOPSIS
 #include <time.h>
 "size_t strftime(char *restrict buf, size_t maxsize,"  " char const *restrict format, struct tm const *restrict timeptr);"
 cc ... -ltz
 DESCRIPTION
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The
 strftime function formats the information from
 timeptr into the array pointed to by
 buf according to the string pointed to by
 format .
The
 format string consists of zero or more conversion specifications and
ordinary characters.
All ordinary characters are copied directly into the array.
A conversion specification consists of a percent sign
.Ql %
and one other character.

No more than
 maxsize bytes are placed into the array.

Each conversion specification is replaced by the characters as
follows which are then copied into the array.

%A
is replaced by the locale's full weekday name.

%a
is replaced by the locale's abbreviated weekday name.

%B
is replaced by the locale's full month name.

%b or %h
is replaced by the locale's abbreviated month name.

%C
is replaced by the century (a year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer)
as a decimal number [00,99].

%c
is replaced by the locale's appropriate date and time representation.

%D
is equivalent to
.c %m/%d/%y .

%d
is replaced by the day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].

%e
is replaced by the day of month as a decimal number [1,31];
single digits are preceded by a blank.

%F
is equivalent to
.c %Y-%m-%d
(the ISO 8601 date format).

%G
is replaced by the ISO 8601 year with century as a decimal number.
See also the
.c %V
conversion specification.

%g
is replaced by the ISO 8601 year without century as a decimal number [00,99].
This is the year that includes the greater part of the week.
(Monday as the first day of a week).
See also the
.c %V
conversion specification.

%H
is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].

%I
is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12].

%j
is replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].

%k
is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [0,23];
single digits are preceded by a blank.

%l
is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [1,12];
single digits are preceded by a blank.

%M
is replaced by the minute as a decimal number [00,59].

%m
is replaced by the month as a decimal number [01,12].

%n
is replaced by a newline.

%p
is replaced by the locale's equivalent of either
.q AM
or
.q PM .

%R
is replaced by the time in the format
.c %H:%M .

%r
is replaced by the locale's representation of 12-hour clock time
using AM/PM notation.

%S
is replaced by the second as a decimal number [00,60].
The range of
seconds is [00,60] instead of [00,59] to allow for the periodic occurrence
of leap seconds.

%s
is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch (see
 ctime (3)).
%T
is replaced by the time in the format
.c %H:%M:%S .

%t
is replaced by a tab.

%U
is replaced by the week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number [00,53].

%u
is replaced by the weekday (Monday as the first day of the week)
as a decimal number [1,7].

%V
is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number [01,53]. If the week containing January
1 has four or more days in the new year, then it is week 1; otherwise
it is week 53 of the previous year, and the next week is week 1.
The year is given by the
.c %G
conversion specification.

%W
is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number [00,53].

%w
is replaced by the weekday (Sunday as the first day of the week)
as a decimal number [0,6].

%X
is replaced by the locale's appropriate time representation.

%x
is replaced by the locale's appropriate date representation.

%Y
is replaced by the year with century as a decimal number.

%y
is replaced by the year without century as a decimal number [00,99].

%Z
is replaced by the time zone abbreviation,
or by the empty string if this is not determinable.

%z
is replaced by the offset from the Prime Meridian
in the format +HHMM or \*-HHMM (ISO 8601) as appropriate,
with positive values representing locations east of Greenwich,
or by the empty string if this is not determinable.
The numeric time zone abbreviation \*-0000 is used when the time is
Universal Time
but local time is indeterminate; by convention this is used for
locations while uninhabited, and corresponds to a zero offset when the
time zone abbreviation begins with
.q "\*-" .

%%
is replaced by a single %.

%+
is replaced by the locale's date and time in
 date (1) format.
 "RETURN VALUE"
If the conversion is successful,
 strftime returns the number of bytes placed into the array, not counting the
terminating NUL;
 errno is unchanged if the returned value is zero.
Otherwise,
 errno is set to indicate the error, zero is returned,
and the array contents are unspecified.
 ERRORS
This function fails if:

[ERANGE]
The total number of resulting bytes, including the terminating
NUL character, is more than
 maxsize .
This function may fail if:

[EOVERFLOW]
The format includes an
.c %s
conversion and the number of seconds since the Epoch cannot be represented
in a
.c time_t .
 SEE ALSO
date(1),
getenv(3),
newctime(3),
newtzset(3),
time(2),
tzfile(5)
 BUGS
There is no conversion specification for the phase of the moon.