NAME

       __pmParseCtime - convert ctime(3) string to tm structure

C SYNOPSIS

       #include "pmapi.h"
       #include "libpcp.h"

       int __pmParseCtime(const char *string, struct tm *rslt, char **errmsg);

       cc ... -lpcp

CAVEAT

       This documentation is intended for internal Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) developer use.

       These  interfaces  are  not part of the PCP APIs that are guaranteed to remain fixed across releases, and
       they may not work, or may provide different semantics at some point in the future.

DESCRIPTION

       __pmParseCtime reverses the asctime(3) function.  It accepts a string specifying a time, and fills in the
       given tm structure.

       Either a fully specified asctime(3) string like "Mon Mar  4 13:07:47 1996" or a partially specified  time
       like  '1996", "Mar 1996", "Mar 4 1996", "Mar", "13:07:47", "13:07", "Mar 4 13:07:47",... is accepted.  In
       addition, the seconds component may be a floating point number, for example "13:07:47.5".   The  12  hour
       clock is also supported, so "13:07" and "1:07 pm" are equivalent.

       __pmParseCtime  returns  0 if successful.  It returns -1 and a dynamically allocated error message string
       in errmsg, if the given string does not parse.  Be sure to free(3) the error message string.

       The tm structure returned in rslt should only be used as an argument to the __pmConvertTime function,  as
       it contains encoded information that will only be correctly interpreted by __pmConvertTime.

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3), pmParseInterval(3), __pmConvertTime(3) and __pmParseTime(3).

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