5 Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@silcnet.org>
7 Copyright (C) 2003 - 2005 Pekka Riikonen
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11 the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
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20 /****h* silcutil/SILC Time Interface
24 * This interface provides various utility functions for getting current
25 * time and converting different time representations into the SilcTime
33 /****s* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/SilcTime
37 * typedef struct { ... } *SilcTime, SilcTimeStruct;
41 * This context represents time value. It includes date and time
42 * down to millisecond precision.
48 unsigned int year : 15; /* Year, 0 - 32768 */
49 unsigned int month : 4; /* Month, 1 - 12 */
50 unsigned int day : 5; /* Day, 1 - 31 */
51 unsigned int hour : 5; /* Hour, 0 - 23 */
52 unsigned int minute : 6; /* Minute, 0 - 59 */
53 unsigned int second : 6; /* Second, 0 - 61 */
54 unsigned int msecond : 10; /* Millisec, 0 - 1000 */
55 unsigned int utc_hour : 5; /* Offset to Zulu (UTC) hours */
56 unsigned int utc_minute : 6; /* Offset to Zulu (UTC) minutes */
57 unsigned int utc_east : 1; /* Offset, 1 east (+), 0 west (-) */
58 unsigned int dst : 1; /* Set if daylight saving time */
59 } *SilcTime, SilcTimeStruct;
62 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time
66 * SilcInt64 silc_time(void);
70 * Returns the current time of the system since Epoch. The returned
71 * value is seconds since Epoch (1.1.1970). Returns -1 on error.
74 SilcInt64 silc_time(void);
76 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_string
80 * const char *silc_time_string(SilcInt64 timeval);
84 * Returns time and date as string. The caller must not free the string
85 * and next call to this function will delete the old string. If the
86 * `timeval' is zero (0) returns current time as string, otherwise the
87 * `timeval' as string. Returns NULL on error.
90 const char *silc_time_string(SilcInt64 timeval);
92 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_value
96 * SilcBool silc_time_value(SilcInt64 timeval, SilcTime ret_time);
100 * Returns time and date as SilcTime. If the `timeval' is zero (0)
101 * returns current time as SilcTime, otherwise the `timeval' as SilcTime.
102 * Returns FALSE on error, TRUE otherwise.
105 SilcBool silc_time_value(SilcInt64 timeval, SilcTime ret_time);
107 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_universal
111 * SilcBool silc_time_universal(const char *universal_time,
112 * SilcTime ret_time);
116 * Returns time and date as SilcTime from `universal_time' string which
117 * format is "YYMMDDhhmmssZ", where YY is year, MM is month, DD is day,
118 * hh is hour, mm is minutes, ss is seconds and Z is timezone, which
119 * by default is Zulu (UTC). Universal time is defined in ISO/EIC 8824-1.
121 * Returns FALSE on error, TRUE otherwise.
125 * SilcTimeStruct ret_time;
127 * time is 03/02/19 19:04:03 Zulu (UTC)
128 * silc_time_universal("030219190403Z", &ret_time);
131 SilcBool silc_time_universal(const char *universal_time, SilcTime ret_time);
133 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_universal_string
137 * SilcBool silc_time_universal_string(SilcTime timeval, char *ret_string,
138 * SilcUInt32 ret_string_size);
142 * Encodes the SilcTime `time' into the universal time format into the
143 * `ret_string' buffer. Returns FALSE if the buffer is too small.
146 SilcBool silc_time_universal_string(SilcTime timeval, char *ret_string,
147 SilcUInt32 ret_string_size);
149 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_generalized
153 * SilcBool silc_time_generalized(const char *generalized_time,
154 * SilcTime ret_time);
158 * Returns time and date as SilcTime from `generalized_time' string which
159 * format is "YYYYMMDDhhmmss.ppZ", where YYYY is year, MM is month, DD
160 * is day, hh is hour, mm is minutes, ss is seconds which may have optional
161 * precision pp, and Z is timezone, which by default is Zulu (UTC).
162 * Generalized time is defined in ISO/EIC 8824-1.
164 * Returns FALSE on error, TRUE otherwise.
168 * SilcTimeStruct ret_time;
170 * time is 2003/02/19 19:04:03 Zulu (UTC)
171 * silc_time_generalized("20030219190403Z", &ret_time);
173 * time is 2003/02/19 19:05:10.212 Zulu (UTC)
174 * silc_time_generalized("20030219190510.212Z", &ret_time);
178 silc_time_generalized(const char *generalized_time, SilcTime ret_time);
180 /****f* silcutil/SilcTimeAPI/silc_time_generalized_string
184 * SilcBool silc_time_generalized_string(SilcTime timeval, char *ret_string,
185 * SilcUInt32 ret_string_size);
189 * Encodes the SilcTime `time' into the generalized time format into the
190 * `ret_string' buffer. Returns FALSE if the buffer is too small.
193 SilcBool silc_time_generalized_string(SilcTime timeval, char *ret_string,
194 SilcUInt32 ret_string_size);
196 #endif /* SILCTIME_H */