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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 index 65eed9c57..47ae2fd0c 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -21,22 +21,17 @@ .\" ************************************************************************** .TH curl_getdate 3 "12 Aug 2005" "libcurl 7.0" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME -curl_getdate - Convert a date string to number of seconds since January 1, -1970 +curl_getdate - Convert a date string to number of seconds .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include <curl/curl.h> .sp .BI "time_t curl_getdate(char *" datestring ", time_t *"now " );" .ad .SH DESCRIPTION -This function returns the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 in the UTC -time zone, for the date and time that the \fIdatestring\fP parameter -specifies. The \fInow\fP parameter is not used, pass a NULL there. - -\fBNOTE:\fP This function was rewritten for the 7.12.2 release and this -documentation covers the functionality of the new one. The new one is not -feature-complete with the old one, but most of the formats supported by the -new one was supported by the old too. +\fIcurl_getdate(3)\fP returns the number of seconds since the Epoch, January +1st 1970 00:00:00 in the UTC time zone, for the date and time that the +\fIdatestring\fP parameter specifies. The \fInow\fP parameter is not used, +pass a NULL there. .SH PARSING DATES AND TIMES A "date" is a string containing several items separated by whitespace. The order of the items is immaterial. A date string may contain many flavors of @@ -108,10 +103,3 @@ number). Having a 64 bit time_t is not a guarantee that dates beyond 03:14:07 UTC, January 19, 2038 will work fine. On systems with a 64 bit time_t but with a crippled mktime(), \fIcurl_getdate\fP will return -1 in this case. -.SH REWRITE -The former version of this function was built with yacc and was not only very -large, it was also never quite understood and it wasn't possible to build with -non-GNU tools since only GNU Bison could make it thread-safe! - -The rewrite was done for 7.12.2. The new one is much smaller and uses simpler -code. |