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.

       string is either a fully specified date and time in the format Day MMM  DD  HH:MM:SS  YYYY
       (e.g  "Mon Mar  4 13:07:47 1996") or a partially specified date and time like "1996", "Mar
       1996", "Mar 4 1996", "Mar", "13:07:47", "13:07", "Mar 4 13:07:47",....   For  a  partially
       specified  date and time, the order of the fields must be preserved and missing fields are
       filled in from the current date and time.

       The seconds component  (SS)  may  be  a  floating  point  number,  for  example  the  time
       "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).