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stdtime/strptime.3 Libc-583 Libc-262
--- Libc/Libc-583/stdtime/strptime.3
+++ Libc/Libc-262/stdtime/strptime.3
@@ -23,43 +23,29 @@
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-.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdtime/strptime.3,v 1.23 2004/07/02 23:52:12 ru Exp $
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdtime/strptime.3,v 1.9.2.7 2001/12/14 18:33:59 ru Exp $
 .\" "
-.Dd January 4, 2003
+.Dd May 8, 1997
 .Dt STRPTIME 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
-.Nm strptime ,
-.Nm strptime_l
+.Nm strptime
 .Nd parse date and time string
 .Sh LIBRARY
 .Lb libc
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In time.h
 .Ft char *
-.Fo strptime
-.Fa "const char *restrict buf"
-.Fa "const char *restrict format"
-.Fa "struct tm *restrict tm"
-.Fc
-.In time.h
-.In xlocale.h
-.Ft char *
-.Fo strptime_l
-.Fa "const char *restrict buf"
-.Fa "const char *restrict format"
-.Fa "struct tm *restrict tm"
-.Fa "locale_t loc"
-.Fc
+.Fn strptime "const char *buf" "const char *format" "struct tm *timeptr"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn strptime
 function parses the string in the buffer
-.Fa buf ,
+.Fa buf
 according to the string pointed to by
 .Fa format ,
 and fills in the elements of the structure pointed to by
-.Fa tm .
+.Fa timeptr .
 The resulting values will be relative to the local time zone.
 Thus, it can be considered the reverse operation of
 .Xr strftime 3 .
@@ -81,37 +67,6 @@
 are now interpreted as beginning at 1969 per POSIX requirements.
 Years 69-00 are interpreted in the 20th century (1969-2000), years
 01-68 in the 21st century (2001-2068).
-.Pp
-If the
-.Fa format
-string does not contain enough conversion specifications to completely
-specify the resulting
-.Vt struct tm ,
-the unspecified members of
-.Va tm
-are left untouched.
-For example, if
-.Fa format
-is
-.Dq Li "%H:%M:%S" ,
-only
-.Va tm_hour ,
-.Va tm_sec
-and
-.Va tm_min
-will be modified.
-If time relative to today is desired, initialize the
-.Fa tm
-structure with today's date before passing it to
-.Fn strptime .
-.Pp
-While the
-.Fn strptime
-function uses the current locale, the
-.Fn strptime_l
-function may be passed a locale directly. See
-.Xr xlocale 3
-for more information.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion,
 .Fn strptime
@@ -122,16 +77,10 @@
 It returns
 .Dv NULL
 if one of the conversions failed.
-.Sh LEGACY DESCRIPTION
-In legacy mode, the
-.Fa %Y
-format specifier expects exactly 4 digits (leaving any trailing digits for the
-next specifier).
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr date 1 ,
 .Xr scanf 3 ,
-.Xr strftime 3 ,
-.Xr xlocale 3
+.Xr strftime 3
 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Fn strptime
@@ -185,13 +134,6 @@
 format specifier only accepts time zone abbreviations of the local time zone,
 or the value "GMT".
 This limitation is because of ambiguity due to of the over loading of time
-zone abbreviations.
-One such example is
+zone abbreviations.  One such example is
 .Fa EST
 which is both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Australia Summer Time.
-.Pp
-The
-.Fn strptime
-function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in the
-.Fa format
-argument.