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<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
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curl_getdate - Convert an date in a ASCII string to number
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of seconds since January 1, 1970
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
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<B>#include</B> <B><curl/curl.h></B>
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<B>time_t</B> <B>curl_getdate(char</B> <B>*</B><I>datestring</I><B>,</B> <B>time_t</B> <B>*</B><I>now"</I><B>);</B>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
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This function returns the number of seconds since January
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1st 1970, for the date and time that the <I>datestring</I> param-
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eter specifies. The <I>now</I> parameter is there and should hold
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the current time to allow the datestring to specify rela-
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tive dates/times. Read further in the date string parser
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section below.
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<H2>PARSING DATES AND TIMES</H2><PRE>
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A "date" is a string, possibly empty, containing many
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items separated by whitespace. The whitespace may be
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omitted when no ambiguity arises. The empty string means
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the beginning of today (i.e., midnight). Order of the
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items is immaterial. A date string may contain many fla-
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vors of items:
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<B>calendar</B> <B>date</B> <B>items</B>
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This can be specified in a number of different
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ways. Including 1970-09-17, 70-9-17, 70-09-17,
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9/17/72, 24 September 1972, 24 Sept 72, 24 Sep 72,
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Sep 24, 1972, 24-sep-72, 24sep72. The year can
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also be omitted, for example: 9/17 or "sep 17".
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<B>time</B> <B>of</B> <B>the</B> <B>day</B> <B>items</B>
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This string specifies the time on a given day.
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Syntax supported includes: 18:19:0, 18:19, 6:19pm,
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18:19-0500 (for specifying the time zone as well).
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<B>time</B> <B>zone</B> <B>items</B>
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Specifies international time zone. There are a few
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acronyms supported, but in general you should
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instead use the specific realtive time compared to
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UTC. Supported formats include: -1200, MST, +0100.
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<B>day</B> <B>of</B> <B>the</B> <B>week</B> <B>items</B>
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Specifies a day of the week. If this is mentioned
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alone it means that day of the week in the future.
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Days of the week may be spelled out in full: `Sun-
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day', `Monday', etc or they may be abbreviated to
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their first three letters, optionally followed by
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a period. The special abbreviations `Tues' for
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`Tuesday', `Wednes' for `Wednesday' and `Thur' or
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`Thurs' for `Thursday' are also allowed.
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move forward supplementary weeks. It is best used
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in expression like `third monday'. In this con-
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text, `last DAY' or `next DAY' is also acceptable;
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they move one week before or after the day that
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DAY by itself would represent.
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<B>relative</B> <B>items</B>
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A relative item adjusts a date (or the current
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date if none) forward or backward. Example syntax
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includes: "1 year", "1 year ago", "2 days", "4
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weeks".
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The string `tomorrow' is worth one day in the
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future (equivalent to `day'), the string `yester-
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day' is worth one day in the past (equivalent to
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`day ago').
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<B>pure</B> <B>numbers</B>
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If the decimal number is of the form YYYYMMDD and
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no other calendar date item appears before it in
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the date string, then YYYY is read as the year, MM
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as the month number and DD as the day of the
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month, for the specified calendar date.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
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This function returns zero when it fails to parse the date
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string. Otherwise it returns the number of seconds as
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described.
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<H2>AUTHORS</H2><PRE>
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Originally written by Steven M. Bellovin
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<smb@research.att.com> while at the University of North
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Carolina at Chapel Hill. Later tweaked by a couple of
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people on Usenet. Completely overhauled by Rich $alz
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<rsalz@bbn.com> and Jim Berets <jberets@bbn.com> in
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August, 1990.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
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</PRE>
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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
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Surely there are some, you tell me!
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