On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> I am seeing a compile failure in current CVS from strptime():
>> ./backend/access/transam/xlog.c: if (strptime(tok2, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm) == NULL)
>> BSD/OS does not have that function.
>
> Hmph. I was wondering if that was really portable or not :-(.
> Any ideas about a quick-and-dirty replacement?
>
> Maybe we could call abstimein or something like that. We just want to
> convert a human-readable string value to a time_t, and I can't say that
> I thought the strptime behavior was all that friendly anyway...
Under FreeBSD:
" The strptime() function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in the format argument"
Not sure how critical that is for what you are doing, mind you ...
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