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STRPTIME(1)			  User Commands 		     STRPTIME(1)

NAME
     strptime  -  Parse  input	from stdin according to one of the given formats
     FORMATs.

SYNOPSIS
     strptime [OPTION]...  [INPUT]...

DESCRIPTION
     Parse input from stdin according to one of the given formats FORMATs.   The
     format string specifiers are the same as for strptime(3).

     Recognized OPTIONs:

     -h, --help
	    Print help and exit

     -V, --version
	    Print version and exit

     -t, --time
	    also display time in the output, default is to display the date

     -q, --quiet
	    Suppress message about date/time and duration parser errors.

     -f, --format=STRING
	    Output  format.   This  can either be a specifier string (similar to
	    strftime()'s FMT) or the name of a calendar.

     -i, --input-format=STRING...
	    Input format, can be used multiple times.  Each  date/time	will  be
	    passed to the input format parsers in the order they are given, if a
	    date/time  can be read successfully with a given input format speci-
	    fier string, that value will be used.

     -e, --backslash-escapes
	    Enable interpretation of backslash escapes in the output  and  input
	    format specifier strings.

     -S, --sed-mode
	    Copy  parts  from  the  input before and after a matching date/time.
	    Note that all occurrences  of  date/times  within  a  line	will  be
	    processed.

     -l, --locale
	    Make  internal strptime(3) and strftime(3) behave in a locale depen-
	    dent way, default is to pretend LC_ALL=C is in place.

FORMAT SPECS
     Format specs in dateutils are similar to posix' strftime().

     However, due to a broader range of supported calendars dateutils  must  em-
     ploy different rules.

     Date specs:
       %a  The abbreviated weekday name
       %A  The full weekday name
       %_a The weekday name shortened to a single character (MTWRFAS)
       %b  The abbreviated month name
       %B  The full month name
       %_b The month name shortened to a single character (FGHJKMNQUVXZ)
       %c  The count of the weekday within the month (range 00 to 05)
       %C  The count of the weekday within the year (range 00 to 53)
       %d  The day of the month, 2 digits (range 00 to 31)
       %D  The day of the year, 3 digits (range 000 to 366)
       %F  Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (ymd's canonical format)
       %g  ISO week date year without the century (range 00 to 99)
       %G  ISO week date year including the century
       %j  Equivalent to %D
       %m  The month in the current calendar (range 00 to 19)
       %Q  The quarter of the year (range Q1 to Q4)
       %q  The number of the quarter (range 01 to 04)
       %s  The number of seconds since the Epoch.
       %u  The weekday as number (range 01 to 07, Sunday being 07)
       %U  The week count,  day of week is Sun (range 00 to 53)
       %V  The ISO week count,	day of week is Mon (range 01 to 53)
       %w  The weekday as number (range 00 to 06, Sunday being 00)
       %W  The week count,  day of week is Mon (range 00 to 53)
       %y  The year without a century (range 00 to 99)
       %Y  The year including the century
       %_y The year shortened to a single digit
       %Z  The zone offset in hours and minutes (HH:MM) with
	   a preceding sign (+ for offsets east of UTC, - for offsets
	   west of UTC)

       %Od The day as roman numerals
       %Om The month as roman numerals
       %Oy The two digit year as roman numerals
       %OY The year including the century as roman numerals

       %rs In time systems whose Epoch is different from the unix Epoch, this
	   selects the number of seconds since then.
       %rY In calendars with years that don't coincide with the Gregorian
	   years, this selects the calendar's year.

       %dth  The day of the month as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
       %mth  The month of the year as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.

       %db The business day of the month (since last month's ultimo)
       %dB Number of business days until this month's ultimo

     Time specs:
       %H  The hour of the day using a 24h clock, 2 digits (range 00 to 23)
       %I  The hour of the day using a 12h clock, 2 digits (range 01 to 12)
       %M  The minute (range 00 to 59)
       %N  The nanoseconds (range 000000000 to 999999999)
       %p  The string AM or PM, noon is PM and midnight is AM.
       %P  Like %p but in lowercase
       %S  The	(range 00 to 60, 60 is for leap seconds)
       %T  Equivalent to %H:%M:%S

     General specs:
       %n  A newline character
       %t  A tab character
       %%  A literal % character

     Modifiers:
       %O  Modifier to turn decimal numbers into Roman numerals
       %r  Modifier to turn units into real units
       th  Suffix, read and print ordinal numbers
       b   Suffix, treat days as business days

     By design dates before 1601-01-01 are not supported.

     For conformity here is a list of calendar designators and their correspond-
     ing format string:
       ymd     %Y-%m-%d
       ymcw    %Y-%m-%c-%w
       ywd     %rY-W%V-%u
       bizda   %Y-%m-%db
       lilian	  n/a
       ldn	  n/a
       julian	  n/a
       jdn	  n/a

     These designators can be used as output format string, moreover, @code{lil-
     ian}/@code{ldn} and @code{julian}/@code{jdn} can also be used as input for-
     mat string.

EXAMPLES
       $ strptime -i '%a, %b-%d/%Y' 'Mon, May-01/2000'
       2000-05-01
       $

       $ strptime -i '%a, %b-%d/%Y' <<EOF
       Mon, May-01/2000
       Mon, Mar-2/2000
       EOF
       2000-05-01
       2000-03-02
       $

AUTHOR
     Written by Sebastian Freundt <freundt@fresse.org>

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to: https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/issues

SEE ALSO
     The  full documentation for strptime is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
     the info and strptime programs are properly installed  at	your  site,  the
     command

	    info (dateutils)strptime

     should give you access to the complete manual.

dateutils 0.4.1 		  December 2016 		     STRPTIME(1)

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