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STRPTIME(3) Linux Programmer’s Manual STRPTIME(3)
NAME
strptime - convert a string representation of time to a time tm structure
SYNOPSIS
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* glibc2 needs this */
#include <time.h>
char *strptime(const char *s, const char *format, struct tm *tm);
DESCRIPTION
The strptime() function is the converse function to strftime() and converts the
character string pointed to by s to values which are stored in the tm structure
pointed to by tm, using the format specified by format. Here format is a character
string that consists of field descriptors and text characters, reminiscent of
scanf(3). Each field descriptor consists of a % character followed by another
character that specifies the replacement for the field descriptor. All other char-
acters in the format string must have a matching character in the input string,
except for whitespace, which matches zero or more whitespace characters in the
input string. There should be whitespace or other alphanumeric characters between
any two field descriptors.
The strptime() function processes the input string from left to right. Each of the
three possible input elements (whitespace, literal, or format) are handled one
after the other. If the input cannot be matched to the format string the function
stops. The remainder of the format and input strings are not processed.
The supported input field descriptors are listed below. In case a text string
(such as a weekday or month name) is to be matched, the comparison is case insensi-
tive. In case a number is to be matched, leading zeros are permitted but not
required.
%% The % character.
%a or %A
The weekday name according to the current locale, in abbreviated form or the
full name.
%b or %B or %h
The month name according to the current locale, in abbreviated form or the
full name.
%c The date and time representation for the current locale.
%C The century number (0-99).
%d or %e
The day of month (1-31).
%D Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (This is the American style date, very confusing to
non-Americans, especially since %d/%m/%y is widely used in Europe. The ISO
8601 standard format is %Y-%m-%d.)
%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 locale’s equivalent of AM or PM. (Note: there may be none.)
%r The 12-hour clock time (using the locale’s AM or PM). In the POSIX locale
equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p. If t_fmt_ampm is empty in the LC_TIME part of
the current locale then the behaviour is undefined.
%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). The first
Sunday of January is the first day of week 1.
%w The weekday number (0-6) with Sunday = 0.
%W The week number with Monday the first day of the week (0-53). The first
Monday of January is the first day of week 1.
%x The date, using the locale’s date format.
%X The time, using the 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).
Some field descriptors can be modified by the E or O modifier characters to indi-
cate that an alternative format or specification should be used. If the alternative
format or specification does not exist in the current locale, the unmodified field
descriptor is used.
The E modifier specifies that the input string may contain alternative locale-
dependent versions of the date and time representation:
%Ec The locale’s alternative date and time representation.
%EC The name of the base year (period) in the locale’s alternative representa-
tion.
%Ex The locale’s alternative date representation.
%EX The locale’s alternative time representation.
%Ey The offset from %EC (year only) in the locale’s alternative representation.
%EY The full alternative year representation.
The O modifier specifies that the numerical input may be in an alternative locale-
dependent format:
%Od or %Oe
The day of the month using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols; leading
zeros are permitted but not required.
%OH The hour (24-hour clock) using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%OI The hour (12-hour clock) using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%Om The month using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%OM The minutes using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%OS The seconds using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%OU The week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) using the
locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%Ow The number of the weekday (Sunday=0) using the locale’s alternative numeric
symbols.
%OW The week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) using the
locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
%Oy The year (offset from %C) using the locale’s alternative numeric symbols.
The broken-down time structure tm is defined in <time.h> as follows:
struct tm {
int tm_sec; /* seconds */
int tm_min; /* minutes */
int tm_hour; /* hours */
int tm_mday; /* day of the month */
int tm_mon; /* month */
int tm_year; /* year */
int tm_wday; /* day of the week */
int tm_yday; /* day in the year */
int tm_isdst; /* daylight saving time */
};
RETURN VALUE
The return value of the function is a pointer to the first character not processed
in this function call. In case the input string contains more characters than
required by the format string the return value points right after the last consumed
input character. In case the whole input string is consumed the return value
points to the NUL byte at the end of the string. If strptime() fails to match all
of the format string and therefore an error occurred the function returns NULL.
CONFORMING TO
XPG4, SUSv2, POSIX 1003.1-2001.
EXAMPLE
The following example demonstrates the use of strptime() and strftime().
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
int main() {
struct tm tm;
char buf[255];
strptime("2001-11-12 18:31:01", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm);
strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d %b %Y %H:%M", &tm);
puts(buf);
return 0;
}
GNU EXTENSIONS
For reasons of symmetry, glibc tries to support for strptime the same format char-
acters as for strftime. (In most cases the corresponding fields are parsed, but no
field in tm is changed.) This leads to
%F Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d, the ISO 8601 date format.
%g The year corresponding to the ISO week number, but without the century
(0-99).
%G The year corresponding to the ISO week number. (For example, 1991.)
%u The day of the week as a decimal number (1-7, where Monday = 1).
%V The ISO 8601:1988 week number as a decimal number (1-53). If the week
(starting on Monday) containing 1 January has four or more days in the new
year, then it is considered week 1. Otherwise, it is the last week of the
previous year, and the next week is week 1.
%z An RFC-822/ISO 8601 standard time zone specification.
%Z The timezone name.
Similarly, because of GNU extensions to strftime, %k is accepted as a synonym for
%H, and %l should be accepted as a synonym for %I, and %P is accepted as a synonym
for %p. Finally
%s The number of seconds since the epoch, i.e., since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Leap seconds are not counted unless leap second support is available.
The GNU libc implementation does not require whitespace between two field descrip-
tors.
NOTES
In principle, this function does not initialize tm but only stores the values spec-
ified. This means that tm should be initialized before the call. Details differ a
bit between different Unix systems. The GNU libc implementation does not touch
those fields which are not explicitly specified, except that it recomputes the
tm_wday and tm_yday field if any of the year, month, or day elements changed.
This function is available since libc 4.6.8. Linux libc4 and libc5 includes define
the prototype unconditionally; glibc2 includes provide a prototype only when
_XOPEN_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined.
Before libc 5.4.13 whitespace (and the ’n’ and ’t’ specifications) was not handled,
no ’E’ and ’O’ locale modifier characters were accepted, and the ’C’ specification
was a synonym for the ’c’ specification.
The ’y’ (year in century) specification is taken to specify a year in the 20th cen-
tury by libc4 and libc5. It is taken to be a year in the range 1950-2049 by glibc
2.0. It is taken to be a year in 1969-2068 since glibc 2.1.
SEE ALSO
time(2), getdate(3), scanf(3), setlocale(3), strftime(3)
GNU 2001-11-12 STRPTIME(3)
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