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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-10-19 11:50:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-10-19 11:50:36 +0000 |
| commit | f139f8bb4eb07f081b136c26246819d987b1a753 (patch) | |
| tree | e3489306792b330883229377c299c625c416b70d /lib/libc | |
| parent | 005303c6c62a40cebd004436e6e9aca832fe5e3d (diff) | |
Document that strptime doesn't set the dst flag.
Based on a diff from Mark Bucc. OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/time/strptime.3 | 17 |
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 |