1.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Tim J. Robbins 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/locale/wcsftime.3 107392 2002-11-29 17:35:09Z ru $ 26.\" 27.Dd December 26, 2013 28.Dt WCSFTIME 3 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm wcsftime , 32.Nm wcsftime_l 33.Nd "convert date and time to a wide-character string" 34.Sh LIBRARY 35.Lb libc 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.In wchar.h 38.Ft size_t 39.Fo wcsftime 40.Fa "wchar_t * restrict wcs" "size_t maxsize" 41.Fa "const wchar_t * restrict format" "const struct tm * restrict timeptr" 42.Fc 43.In xlocale.h 44.Ft size_t 45.Fo wcsftime_l 46.Fa "wchar_t * restrict wcs" "size_t maxsize" 47.Fa "const wchar_t * restrict format" "const struct tm * restrict timeptr" 48.Fa "locale_t locale" 49.Fc 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Fn wcsftime 53and 54.Fn wcsftime_l 55functions are equivalent to the 56.Fn strftime 57and 58.Fn strftime_l 59functions except for the types of their arguments. 60Refer to 61.Xr strftime 3 62for a detailed description. 63.Pp 64The 65.Fn wcsftime_l 66function takes an explicit 67.Fa locale 68argument, whereas the 69.Fn wcsftime 70function uses the current global or per-thread locale. 71.Sh COMPATIBILITY 72Some early implementations of 73.Fn wcsftime 74had a 75.Fa format 76argument with type 77.Vt "const char *" 78instead of 79.Vt "const wchar_t *" . 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr strftime 3 , 82.Xr xlocale 3 83.Sh STANDARDS 84The 85.Fn wcsftime 86function conforms to 87.St -isoC-99 . 88