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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-19 11:50:36 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-19 11:50:36 +0000
commitf139f8bb4eb07f081b136c26246819d987b1a753 (patch)
treee3489306792b330883229377c299c625c416b70d /lib/libc/time
parent005303c6c62a40cebd004436e6e9aca832fe5e3d (diff)
Document that strptime doesn't set the dst flag.
Based on a diff from Mark Bucc. OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/time')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/strptime.317
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/strptime.3 b/lib/libc/time/strptime.3
index d3dd4528ad4..597edb1b83d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/strptime.3
+++ b/lib/libc/time/strptime.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strptime.3,v 1.11 2008/06/26 05:42:05 ray Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strptime.3,v 1.12 2008/10/19 11:50:35 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2008 $
.Dt STRPTIME 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -167,6 +167,18 @@ the year, including the century (i.e., 1998).
A `%' is written.
No argument is converted.
.El
+.Pp
+There is no way to specify whether Daylight Saving Time is in effect when
+calling
+.Nm .
+To use the resulting
+.Fa tm
+structure with functions that check the
+.Fa tm_isdst
+field, either set it to a negative value, which will cause
+.Xr mktime 3
+to attempt to divine whether Daylight Saving Time would be in effect
+for the given time, or compute the value manually.
.Ss Modified conversion specifications
For compatibility, certain conversion specifications can be modified
by the
@@ -191,6 +203,7 @@ function returns a pointer to the character following the last character
parsed.
Otherwise, a null pointer is returned.
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mktime 3 ,
.Xr strftime 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The