Method strptime()

Method strptime

mapping(string:int) strptime(string(1..255) data, string(1..255) format)

Description

Parse the given data using the format in format as a date.

%%

The % character.

%a or %A

The weekday name according to the C locale, in abbreviated form or the full name.

%b or %B or %h

The month name according to the C locale, in abbreviated form or the full name.

%c

The date and time representation for the C locale.

%C

The century number (0-99).

%d or %e

The day of month (1-31).

%D

Equivalent to %m/%d/%y.

%H

The hour (0-23).

%I

The hour on a 12-hour clock (1-12).

%j

The day number in the year (1-366).

%m

The month number (1-12).

%M

The minute (0-59).

%n

Arbitrary whitespace.

%p

The C locale's equivalent of AM or PM.

%R

Equivalent to %H:%M.

%S

The second (0-60; 60 may occur for leap seconds; earlier also 61 was allowed).

%t

Arbitrary whitespace.

%T

Equivalent to %H:%M:%S.

%U

The week number with Sunday the first day of the week (0-53).

%w

The weekday number (0-6) with Sunday = 0.

%W

The week number with Monday the first day of the week (0-53).

%x

The date, using the C locale's date format.

%X

The time, using the C locale's time format.

%y

The year within century (0-99). When a century is not otherwise specified, values in the range 69-99 refer to years in the twentieth century (1969-1999); values in the range 00-68 refer to years in the twenty-first century (2000-2068).

%Y

The year, including century (for example, 1991).

See also

localtime(), gmtime(), strftime()