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WCSFTIME(3)              BSD Library Functions Manual              WCSFTIME(3)

NAME
     wcsftime, wcsftime_l -- convert date and time to a wide-character string

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <wchar.h>

     size_t
     wcsftime(wchar_t *restrict wcs, size_t maxsize, const wchar_t *restrict format,
         const struct tm *restrict timeptr);

     #include <wchar.h>
     #include <xlocale.h>

     size_t
     wcsftime_l(wchar_t *restrict wcs, size_t maxsize, const wchar_t *restrict format,
         const struct tm *restrict timeptr, locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION
     The wcsftime() function is equivalent to the strftime() function, except for the types of its argu-ments. arguments.
     ments.  Refer to strftime(3) for a detailed description.

     While the wcsftime() function uses the current locale, the wcsftime_l() function may be passed a locale
     directly. See xlocale(3) for more information.

COMPATIBILITY
     Some early implementations of wcsftime() had a format argument with type const char *, instead of const
     wchar_t *.

SEE ALSO
     strftime(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS
     The wcsftime() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').

BSD                            September 8, 2002                           BSD