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strftime - format date and time
Návod, kniha: Linux Programmer's Manual
#include <time.h>
size_t strftime(char *s, size_t max, const char *format,
const struct tm *tm);
The
strftime() function formats the broken-down time
tm according
to the format specification
format and places the result in the
character array
s of size
max.
Ordinary characters placed in the format string are copied to
s without
conversion. Conversion specifiers are introduced by a `%' character, and are
replaced in
s as follows:
- %a
- The abbreviated weekday name according to the current
locale.
- %A
- The full weekday name according to the current locale.
- %b
- The abbreviated month name according to the current
locale.
- %B
- The full month name according to the current locale.
- %c
- The preferred date and time representation for the current
locale.
- %C
- The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer.
(SU)
- %d
- The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to
31).
- %D
- Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Yecch - for Americans only.
Americans should note that in other countries %d/%m/%y is rather common.
This means that in international context this format is ambiguous and
should not be used.) (SU)
- %e
- Like %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a
leading zero is replaced by a space. (SU)
- %E
- Modifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)
- %F
- Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format).
(C99)
- %G
- The ISO 8601 year with century as a decimal number. The
4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the
same format and value as %y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to
the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (TZ)
- %g
- Like %G, but without century, i.e., with a 2-digit year
(00-99). (TZ)
- %h
- Equivalent to %b. (SU)
- %H
- The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range
00 to 23).
- %I
- The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range
01 to 12).
- %j
- The day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to
366).
- %k
- The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to
23); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.) (TZ)
- %l
- The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to
12); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.) (TZ)
- %m
- The month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).
- %M
- The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).
- %n
- A newline character. (SU)
- %O
- Modifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)
- %p
- Either `AM' or `PM' according to the given time value, or
the corresponding strings for the current locale. Noon is treated as `pm'
and midnight as `am'.
- %P
- Like %p but in lowercase: `am' or `pm' or a corresponding
string for the current locale. (GNU)
- %r
- The time in a.m. or p.m. notation. In the POSIX locale this
is equivalent to `%I:%M:%S %p'. (SU)
- %R
- The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). (SU) For a version
including the seconds, see %T below.
- %s
- The number of seconds since the Epoch, i.e., since
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. (TZ)
- %S
- The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61).
- %t
- A tab character. (SU)
- %T
- The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S). (SU)
- %u
- The day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday
being 1. See also %w. (SU)
- %U
- The week number of the current year as a decimal number,
range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of week
01. See also %V and %W.
- %V
- The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a
decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at
least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the
week. See also %U and %W. (SU)
- %w
- The day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday
being 0. See also %u.
- %W
- The week number of the current year as a decimal number,
range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first day of week
01.
- %x
- The preferred date representation for the current locale
without the time.
- %X
- The preferred time representation for the current locale
without the date.
- %y
- The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to
99).
- %Y
- The year as a decimal number including the century.
- %z
- The time-zone as hour offset from GMT. Required to emit
RFC822-conformant dates (using "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z").
(GNU)
- %Z
- The time zone or name or abbreviation.
- %+
- The date and time in date(1) format. (TZ)
- %%
- A literal `%' character.
Some conversion specifiers can be modified by preceding them by the E or O
modifier to indicate that an alternative format should be used. If the
alternative format or specification does not exist for the current locale, the
behaviour will be as if the unmodified conversion specification were used.
(SU) The Single Unix Specification mentions %Ec, %EC, %Ex, %EX, %Ry, %EY, %Od,
%Oe, %OH, %OI, %Om, %OM, %OS, %Ou, %OU, %OV, %Ow, %OW, %Oy, where the effect
of the O modifier is to use alternative numeric symbols (say, roman numerals),
and that of the E modifier is to use a locale-dependent alternative
representation.
The broken-down time structure
tm is defined in
<time.h>.
See also
ctime(3).
The
strftime() function returns the number of characters placed in the
array
s, not including the terminating NUL character, provided the
string, including the terminating NUL, fits. Otherwise, it returns 0, and the
contents of the array is undefined. (Thus at least since libc 4.4.4; very old
versions of libc, such as libc 4.4.1, would return
max if the array was
too small.)
Note that the return value 0 does not necessarily indicate an error; for
example, in many locales %p yields an empty string.
The environment variables TZ and LC_TIME are used.
ANSI C, SVID 3, ISO 9899. There are strict inclusions between the set of
conversions given in ANSI C (unmarked), those given in the Single Unix
Specification (marked SU), those given in Olson's timezone package (marked
TZ), and those given in glibc (marked GNU), except that %+ is not supported in
glibc2. On the other hand glibc2 has several more extensions. POSIX.1 only
refers to ANSI C; POSIX.2 describes under
date(1) several extensions
that could apply to
strftime as well. The %F conversion is in C99 and
POSIX 1003.1-2001.
Some buggy versions of gcc complain about the use of %c:
warning: `%c' yields
only last 2 digits of year in some locales. Of course programmers are
encouraged to use %c, it gives the preferred date and time representation. One
meets all kinds of strange obfuscations to circumvent this gcc problem. A
relatively clean one is to add an intermediate function
size_t my_strftime(char *s, size_t max, const
char *fmt, const struct tm *tm) {
return strftime(s, max, fmt, tm);
}
date(1),
time(2),
ctime(3),
setlocale(3),
sprintf(3),
strptime(3)