hi Arthur,
the current man-pages are maintained by andries brouwer (Andries.Brouwer(a)cwi.nl)
his pages can easly been converted to ascii or html using groff.
zcat /usr/local/man/man3/strftime.3.gz | groff -mandoc -Thtml >/tmp/strftime.html
zcat /usr/local/man/man3/strftime.3.gz | groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 >/tmp/strftime.txt
hope that helps,
walter
btw: never heard about newstrftime() or newctime(); something special ?
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From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona(a)dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
Subject: Variant versions of manual pages
Date: 10/20/03 15:26
Would text of the sort shown below (for "newstrftime.3") meet the preceived
need for non-man versions of the manual pages?
--ado
NAME
strftime - format date and time
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <time.h>
size_t strftime(buf, maxsize, format, timeptr)
char *buf;
size_t maxsize;
const char *format;
const struct tm *timeptr
cc ... -ltz
DESCRIPTION
The strftime function formats the information from timeptr
into the buffer buf according to the string pointed to by
format.
The format string consists of zero or more conversion
specifications and ordinary characters. All ordinary char-
acters are copied directly into the buffer. A conversion
specification consists of a percent sign and one other char-
acter.
No more than maxsize characters are be placed into the
array. If the total number of resulting characters, includ-
ing the terminating null character, is not more than max-
size, strftime returns the number of characters in the
array, not counting the terminating null. Otherwise, zero
is returned.
Each conversion specification is replaced by the characters
as follows which are then copied into the buffer.
%A is replaced by the locale's full weekday name.
%a is replaced by the locale's abbreviated weekday name.
%B is replaced by the locale's full month name.
%b or %h
is replaced by the locale's abbreviated month name.
%C is replaced by the century (a year divided by 100 and
truncated to an integer) as a decimal number (00-99).
%c is replaced by the locale's appropriate date and time
representation.
%D is replaced by the date in the format %m/%d/%y.
%d is replaced by the day of the month as a decimal number
(01-31).
%e is replaced by the day of month as a decimal number
(1-31); single digits are preceded by a blank.
%F is replaced by the date in the format %Y-%m-%d.
%G is replaced by the ISO 8601 year with century as a
decimal number.
%g is replaced by the ISO 8601 year without century as a
decimal number (00-99).
%H is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal
number (00-23).
%I is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal
number (01-12).
%j is replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number
(001-366).
%k is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal
number (0-23); single digits are preceded by a blank.
%l is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal
number (1-12); single digits are preceded by a blank.
%M is replaced by the minute as a decimal number (00-59).
%m is replaced by the month as a decimal number (01-12).
%n is replaced by a newline.
%p is replaced by the locale's equivalent of either AM or
PM.
%R is replaced by the time in the format %H:%M.
%r is replaced by the locale's representation of 12-hour
clock time using AM/PM notation.
%S is replaced by the second as a decimal number (00-60).
%s is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch,
UTC (see mktime(3)).
%T is replaced by the time in the format %H:%M:%S.
%t is replaced by a tab.
%U is replaced by the week number of the year (Sunday as
the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).
%u is replaced by the weekday (Monday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number (1-7).
%V is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as
the first day of the week) as a decimal number (01-53).
If the week containing January 1 has four or more days
in the new year, then it is week 1; otherwise it is
week 53 of the previous year, and the next week is week
1.
%W is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as
the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).
%w is replaced by the weekday (Sunday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number (0-6).
%X is replaced by the locale's appropriate time represen-
tation.
%x is replaced by the locale's appropriate date represen-
tation.
%Y is replaced by the year with century as a decimal
number.
%y is replaced by the year without century as a decimal
number (00-99).
%Z is replaced by the time zone name, or by the empty
string if this is not determinable.
%z is replaced by the offset from UTC in the format +HHMM
or -HHMM as appropriate, with positive values
representing locations east of Greenwich, or by the
empty string if this is not determinable.
%% is replaced by a single %.
%+ is replaced by the date and time in date(1) format.
SEE ALSO
date(1), getenv(3), newctime(3), newtzset(3), time(2),
tzfile(5)
