Hi Ted,

Ted Unangst wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:51:34AM -0500:

> Neither strftime nor strptime describe the fields inside struct tm,
> and while they eventually point that way in references, strftime
> provides no guidance as to which of its nine (9!) references
> I should read next.  I don't like guessing.

Feel free to drop the pair of parentheses in the strptime.3
case if you want to, they don't seem to be needed, like so:

+.Fa tm
+described in
+.Xr mktime 3 .

Either way, OK schwarze@.
  Ingo


> Index: strftime.3
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/time/strftime.3,v
> retrieving revision 1.34
> diff -u -p -r1.34 strftime.3
> --- strftime.3        29 Jan 2015 01:46:31 -0000      1.34
> +++ strftime.3        30 Dec 2015 16:46:29 -0000
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ The
>  .Fn strftime
>  function formats the information from
>  .Fa timeptr
> +(as described in
> +.Xr mktime 3 )
>  into the buffer
>  .Fa buf
>  according to the string pointed to by
> Index: strptime.3
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/time/strptime.3,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -p -r1.24 strptime.3
> --- strptime.3        4 Dec 2014 00:10:40 -0000       1.24
> +++ strptime.3        30 Dec 2015 16:47:17 -0000
> @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ function parses the string
>  according to the specified
>  .Fa format
>  and fills matching data into the structure
> -.Fa tm .
> +.Fa tm
> +(described in
> +.Xr mktime 3 ) .
>  .Pp
>  The
>  .Fa format
> 

  • xr mktime Ted Unangst
    • Re: xr mktime Ingo Schwarze

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