Crate libc_strftime

A wrapper library for the glibc strftime function

Examples

Format the current date and time in Brussels in French:

use std::env;

env::set_var("LC_ALL", "fr_BE.UTF-8");
env::set_var("TZ", "Europe/Brussels");

libc_strftime::tzset();
libc_strftime::set_locale();

let now = libc_strftime::epoch(); // most likely a u64
let local = libc_strftime::strftime_local("%c", now);
println!("On est: {}", local);

Functions

epoch	Retrieve the current time in epoch format (number of seconds since 1970 in UTC)
get_gmt_tm_from_epoch	Get a tm struct in GMT
get_local_tm_from_epoch	Get a tm struct in local timezone
set_locale	Call setlocale() which will initialize the locale based on the environment variables
strftime_gmt	Call strftime() using GMT and returns a String
strftime_local	Call strftime() using the local timezone and returns a String
tzset	Call tzset() which will initialize the local timezone based on the environment variables