Re: date format

[Graham Waters <waters@triumf.ca>]

Kay-Uwe Kasemir wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 16:29 , Graham Waters wrote:
>
> > I notice the output format for date() for R3.14 is difference from 
> > R3.13. In detail
> > tsStampToText() is replaced by epicsTimeToStrftime(). Is there any 
> > functionality
> > somewhere to return the name of the month ("Mar" rather than "03").
>
> At least some versions of strftime support these:
>      %A    is replaced by national representation of the full weekday 
> name.
>
>      %a    is replaced by national representation of the abbreviated 
> weekday
>            name.
>
>      %B    is replaced by national representation of the full month name.
>
>      %b    is replaced by national representation of the abbreviated 
> month
>            name.
> .. and epicsTimeToStrftime just calls the underlying strftime
> after removing the format character for the nanoseconds (if used).
>
> Not sure if that's available on vxWorks, RTEMS, ....
>
> -Kay
Thanks, it worked with vxWorks.

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