/** @file  ../include/time.h

@internalComponent

*/

/** @fn  asctime(const struct tm *tm)

@param tm

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock(void)

@return   clock is just for build support and hence returns 0.

 The clock function

determines the amount of processor time used since the invocation of the

calling process, measured in CLOCKS_PER_SEC s of a second.

 Note: the clock system call eventually calls Symbian OS call user::GetCpuTime(), 

  which is not supported from version 8.0b, hence this api is included for build 

  support only.

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  ctime(const time_t *clock)

@param clock

Note: This description also covers the following functions -

 difftime()  asctime()  localtime()  gmtime()  mktime()  ctime_r()  localtime_r()  gmtime_r()  asctime_r() 

@return   Each of these functions returns the value described, NULL, or -1 in the case of mktime if an error was detected.

  The functions ctime, gmtime and localtime all take as an argument a time value representing the time 

in seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970); see time

 The function localtime converts the time value pointed at by clock and returns a pointer to a " struct tm " (described below) which contains the broken down time information 

  for the value after adjusting for the current time zone (and any other factors 

  such as Daylight Saving Time). Time zone adjustments are performed as specified 

  by the TZ environment variable (see the tzset function). localtime uses tzset to initialize time conversion information 

  if tzset has not already been called by the process.

 After filling in the tm structure, localtime sets the tm_isdst's Nth element of tzname to a pointer to a ASCII string that is the time zone abbreviation to be

used with localtime's (return, value.);

 The function gmtime similarly converts the time value without any time zone adjustment 

  and returns a pointer to a tm structure (described below).

 The ctime function adjusts the time value for the current time zone, in 

  the same manner as localtime, and returns a pointer to a 26-character string of the form: Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986

\\0

 All the fields have constant width.

 The ctime_r function provides the same functionality as ctime except the caller must provide the output buffer buf to store the result, which must be at least 26 characters long.

 The localtime_r and gmtime_r functions provide the same functionality as localtime and gmtime respectively, except the caller must provide the output buffer result.

 The asctime function

converts the broken down time in the structure tm pointed at by *tm to the form

shown in the example above.

 The asctime_r function provides the same functionality as asctime except the caller provides the output buffer buf to store the result, which must be at least 26 characters long.

 The functions mktime converts the broken-down time in the structure pointed to by 

  tm into a time value with the same encoding as that of the values returned by 

  the time function (that is, seconds from the Epoch, UTC). The mktime function interprets the input structure according to the current 

  timezone setting (see tzset ).

 The original values of the tm_wday and tm_yday components of the structure are ignored, and the original values 

  of the other components are not restricted to their normal ranges and will be 

  normalized if needed. For example, October 40 is changed into November 9, a tm_hour of -1 means 1 hour before midnight, tm_mday of 0 means the day preceding the current month, and tm_mon of -2 means 2 months before January of tm_year.

 A positive or zero value for tm_isdst causes mktime to presume initially that summer time (for example, Daylight 

  Saving Time) is or is not in effect for the specified time.. A negative value 

  for tm_isdst causes the mktime function to attempt to define whether summer time is in effect 

  for the specified time. The tm_isdst and tm_gmtoff members are forced to zero by timegm.

 On successful completion, the values of the tm_wday and tm_yday components of the structure are set appropriately and the other 

  components are set to represent the specified calendar time, but with their 

  values forced to their normal ranges: The final value of tm_mday is not set until tm_mon and tm_year are determined.

 The mktime function returns the specified calendar time. If the calendar 

  time cannot be represented, it returns -1.

 The difftime function

returns the difference between two calendar times, ( time1 - time0), expressed in seconds.

 External declarations as well as the tm structure definition are in the 

@code

  #include <time.h> include file. The tm structure includes 

@endcode

  at least the following fields: 

@code

int tm_sec;		// seconds (0 - 60)

int tm_min;		// minutes (0 - 59)

int tm_hour;	// hours (0 - 23) 

int tm_mday;	// day of month (1 - 31) 

int tm_mon;		// month of year (0 - 11)

int tm_year;	// year - 1900 

int tm_wday;	// day of week (Sunday = 0)

int tm_yday;	// day of year (0 - 365) 

int tm_isdst;	// is summer time in effect? 

char *tm_zone;	// abbreviation of timezone name 

long tm_gmtoff;	// offset from UTC in seconds 

@endcode

 The

field tm_isdst is non-zero if summer time is in effect.

 The field tm_gmtoff is the offset (in seconds) of the time represented from UTC, with positive

values indicating east of the Prime Meridian.

Examples:

@code

//Example usage of asctime,localtime and gmtime:

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

        time_t t;

        struct tm *timeptr;

        char* asc_time;

        t = time (NULL); //Get current time in seconds from Epoc

        //Fill tm struct w.r.t localtime using localtime

        timeptr = localtime (&t;);

        //Use this to convert it to a string indicating time w.r.t localtime

        asc_time = asctime (timeptr);

        printf ("Time from asctime w.r.t localtime : %s", asc_time);

        //Fill tm struct w.r.t GMT using gmtime

        timeptr = gmtime (&t;);

        //Use this to convert it to a string indicating time w.r.t GMT

        asc_time = asctime (timeptr);

        printf ("Time from asctime w.r.t gmtime : %s", asc_time);

        return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Time from asctime w.r.t localtime : Thu Jun 22 10:42:27 2006

Time from asctime w.r.t gmtime : Thu Jun 22 05:12:27 2006

@endcode

@code

//Example usage of ctime,mktime:

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

        time_t t;

        struct tm timeptr;

        char* c_time;

        //Fill the tm struct with values

        timeptr.tm_year = 2001;

        timeptr.tm_mon = 6;

        timeptr.tm_mday = 4;

        timeptr.tm_hour = 0;

        timeptr.tm_min = 0;

        timeptr.tm_sec = 1;

        timeptr.tm_isdst = -1;

        t = mktime (&timeptr;); //Call mktime to make time in seconds w.r.t epoc

        //Convert this to a string indicating time using ctime

        c_time = ctime (&t;);  

        printf ("Time from ctime : %s", c_time);

        return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Time from ctime : Thu Jan  1 05:29:59 1970

@endcode

@code

//Example usage of difftime:

#include <time.h>

#include <unistd.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

        time_t t0,t1,t2;

        //Set initial and final values

        t0 = 10;

        t1 = 20;

        t2 = difftime (t1, t0); //Find the time difference using difftime

        printf ("Result of difftime = %d", t2);

        return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Result of difftime = 10

@endcode

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

Bugs:

 Except for difftime, mktime, and the _r variants of the other functions,

these functions leaves their result in an internal static object and return

a pointer to that object.

Subsequent calls to these

function will modify the same object. 

The C Standard provides no mechanism for a program to modify its current

local timezone setting, and the POSIX -standard method is not reentrant.

(However, thread-safe implementations are provided

in the POSIX threaded environment.) 

The tm_zone field of a returned tm

structure points to a static array of characters,

which will also be overwritten by any subsequent calls (as well as by

subsequent call to tzset ) 

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0)

@param time1

@param time0

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  gmtime(const time_t *clock)

@param clock

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  localtime(const time_t *clock)

@param clock

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

The localtime() is not guaranteed to be thread safe.

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  mktime(struct tm *tm)

@param tm

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  strftime(char *  s, size_t maxsize, const char *  format, const struct tm *  t)

@param s

@param maxsize

@param format

@param t

The strftime function formats the information from t into the buffer s according to the string pointed to by format .

The format string consists of zero or more conversion specifications and

ordinary characters.

All ordinary characters are copied directly into the buffer.

A conversion specification consists of a percent sign "\%"

and one other character.

No more than maxsize characters will be placed into the array. If the total number of resulting characters, including the terminating NULL character, is not more 

than maxsize , strftime returns the number of characters in the array, not counting 

the terminating NULL. Otherwise, zero is returned and the buffer contents are 

indeterminate.

@code

The conversion specifications are copied to the buffer after expansion as follows:- 

%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.  

%C  is replaced by (year / 100) as decimal number; single digits are preceded by a zero.  

%c  is replaced by national representation of time and date.  

%D  is equivalent to "%m/%d/%y".  

%d  is replaced by the day of the month as a decimal number (01-31).  

%E* %O*  

  POSIX locale extensions. The sequences %Ec %EC %Ex %EX %Ey %EY %Od %Oe %OH %OI %Om %OM %OS %Ou %OU %OV %Ow %OW %Oy are supposed to provide alternate representations. 

Additionally %OB implemented to represent alternative months names (used standalone, without day mentioned). 

%e  is replaced by the day of month as a decimal number (1-31); single digits are preceded by a blank.  

%F  is equivalent to "%Y-%m-%d".  

%G  is replaced by a year as a decimal number with century. This year is the one that contains the greater part of the week (Monday as the first day of the week).  

%g  is replaced by the same year as in "%G", but as a decimal number without century (00-99).  

%H  is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (00-23).  

%h  the same as %b.  

%I  is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (01-12).  

%j  is replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number (001-366).  

%k  is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (0-23); single digits are preceded by a blank.  

%l  is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (1-12); single digits are preceded by a blank.  

%M  is replaced by the minute as a decimal number (00-59).  

%m  is replaced by the month as a decimal number (01-12).  

%n  is replaced by a newline.  

%O*  the same as %E*.  

%p  is replaced by national representation of either "ante meridiem" or "post meridiem" as appropriate.  

%R  is equivalent to "%H:%M".  

%r  is equivalent to "%I:%M:%S %p".  

%S  is replaced by the second as a decimal number (00-60).  

%s  is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch, UTC (see mktime).  

%T  is equivalent to "%H:%M:%S".  

%t  is replaced by a tab.  

%U  is replaced by the week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).  

%u  is replaced by the weekday (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (1-7).  

%V  is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (01-53). If the week containing January 1 has four or more days in the new year, then it is week 1; otherwise it is the last week of the previous year, and the next week is week 1.  

%v  is equivalent to "%e-%b-%Y".  

%W  is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).  

%w  is replaced by the weekday (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (0-6).  

%X  is replaced by national representation of the time.  

%x  is replaced by national representation of the date.  

%Y  is replaced by the year with century as a decimal number.  

%y  is replaced by the year without century as a decimal number (00-99).  

%Z  is replaced by the time zone name.  

%z  is replaced by the time zone offset from UTC; a leading plus sign stands for east of UTC, a minus sign for west of UTC, hours and minutes follow with two digits each and no delimiter between them (common form for RFC 822 date headers).  

%+  is replaced by national representation of the date and time (the format is similar to that produced by 'date( )' function ).  

%-*  GNU libc extension. Do not do any padding when performing numerical outputs.  

%_*  GNU libc extension. Explicitly specify space for padding.  

%0*  GNU libc extension. Explicitly specify zero for padding. 

%%  is replaced by ‘%’.  

@endcode

Examples:

@code

#include <string.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <time.h>

#include <locale.h>

int main()

{

   struct tm tm;

   char buf[255];

   char *locale;

   locale = setlocale(LC_TIME,"en_GB.ISO-8859-1");

   if( locale != NULL)

   {

       strptime("2001-11-12 18:31:01", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm;);

       printf("sec = %d min = %d hours = %d 

Year = %d Month = %d day = %d

",\

       tm.tm_sec,tm.tm_min,tm.tm_hour,tm.tm_year,tm.tm_mon,tm.tm_mday);

       strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d %B %Y %H:%M:%S", &tm;);

       puts(buf);

       strptime("Mon","%a", &tm;);

       strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%a", &tm;);

       puts(buf);

    }

    else

       printf("Failed to set locale

");

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

sec = 1 min = 31 hours = 18

Year = 101 Month = 10 day = 12

12 November 2001 18:31:01

Mon

@endcode

@see printf()

@see ctime()

@see strptime()

@see wcsftime()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  time(time_t *p)

@param p

@return   On success the value of time in seconds since the Epoch is returned. On error 

(time_t)(-1) is returned and errno is set appropriately.

  The time function returns the value of time in seconds since 0 hours, 0 

minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time. If an error occurs, time returns the value ( time_t)(-1) .

 The return value is also stored in * p ,

provided that p is non-null.

Examples:

@code

/*

 * Detailed description : sample usage of time system call

 */

#include <time.h>

int main()

{

  time_t Time ;

  if(time(&Time;) < 0 ) 

  {

    printf("Time system call failed 

") ;

    return -1 ;

  }

 printf("Time value is %u 

" , Time) ;

 return 0 ;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code 

Time value is 1176916948

@endcode

@see gettimeofday()

@see ctime()

Bugs:

 Neither -isoC-99 nor -p1003.1-2001 requires time to set errno on failure; thus, it is impossible for an application to distinguish

the valid time value -1 (representing the last UTC second of 1969)

from the error return value. 

Systems conforming to earlier versions of the C and POSIX standards (including older versions of )

did not set * p in the error case. 

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  tzset(void)

  The tzset function

initializes time conversion information used by the library routine localtime .

The environment variable TZ specifies how this is done.

 If TZ does not appear in the environment, the best available approximation 

  to local wall clock time is used.

 If TZ appears in the environment but its value is a null string, Coordinated

Universal Time ( UTC )

is used (without leap second correction).

Examples:

@code

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

        time_t t;

        char* c_time;

        tzset(); //Call tzset

        c_time = ctime (&t;); //Get time-string using ctime for Epoc time

        printf ("Time from ctime after tzset: %s", c_time);

        return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Time from ctime after tzset: Sun Apr  7 02:24:08 1974

@endcode

@see gettimeofday()

@see ctime()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see gettimeofday()

@see ctime()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see gettimeofday()

@see ctime()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock_getres(clockid_t clock_id, struct timespec *res)

@param clock_id

@param res

Refer to  clock_gettime() for the documentation

@see adjtime()

@see ctime()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock_gettime(clockid_t clock_id, struct timespec *tp)

@param clock_id

@param tp

Note: This description also covers the following functions -

 clock_settime()  clock_getres()  clock_getcpuclockid() 

@return   All the above APIs return 0 on success and -1 on failure.

@code

  #include < sys/time.h > as:

@endcode

  The clock_gettime and clock_settime allow the calling process to retrieve or set the value used by a clock

which is specified by clock_id.

 The clock_id argument can be one of four values: CLOCK_REALTIME for time 

  that increments as a wall clock should, CLOCK_MONOTONIC which increments in 

  SI seconds, CLOCK_VIRTUAL for time that increments only when the CPU is running 

  in user mode on behalf of the calling process, or CLOCK_PROF for time that increments 

  when the CPU is running in user or kernel mode.

 As Symbian OS exposes only 'wall clock time' at user level, only CLOCK_REALTIME 

  is supported for all the clock-based APIs.

 The structure pointed to by tp is defined in  

@code

  #include <sys/time.h> as:

@endcode

@code

struct timespec {

time_ttv_sec;/* seconds */

longtv_nsec;/* and nanoseconds */

};

@endcode

 The resolution (granularity) of a clock is returned by the clock_getres system call.

This value is placed in a (non-NULL) *tp.

 The clock_getcpuclockid system call returns ( in *clock_id ) the clock ID of the CPU-time clock of the process specified 

  by pid. If pid is zero, the clock ID of the CPU-time clock of the process making 

  the call is returned.

Examples:

@code

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int clock_user()

{

        struct timespec tp;

        int retval;

        clockid_t clockid;

        clock_getres (CLOCK_REALTIME, &tp;); // Call clock_getres 

        printf ("Real time-clock resolution is %d seconds and %d nanoseconds

", tp.tv_sec, tp.tv_nsec);

        clock_getcpuclockid (0 ,&clockid;); // Call clock_getcpuclockid with pid = 0

        printf ("The clock id for the current process is %d

", clockid);

        tp.tv_sec = 0;

        tp.tv_nsec = 100;

        retval = clock_settime (CLOCK_REALTIME, &tp;); // Call clock_settime with 100ns

        printf ("clock_settime returned %d

", retval);

        clock_gettime (CLOCK_REALTIME, &tp;); // Call clock_gettime to fill tp

        printf ("Time from real time-clock is %d seconds and %d nanoseconds

", tp.tv_sec, tp.tv_nsec);

        return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Real time-clock resolution is 0 seconds and 1000000 nanoseconds

The clock id for the current process is 0

clock_settime returned 0

Time from real time-clock is 0 seconds and 70663000 nanoseconds

@endcode

@see adjtime()

@see ctime()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock_settime(clockid_t clock_id, const struct timespec *tp)

@param clock_id

@param tp

Refer to  clock_gettime() for the documentation

@see adjtime()

@see ctime()

@capability Deferred @ref User::SetUTCTime(const TTime &aUTCTime) 

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  nanosleep(const struct timespec *req, struct timespec *rem)

@param req

@param rem

@return   If the nanosleep system call returns because the requested time has elapsed, the value

returned will be zero. If rem is non- NULL, the timespec structure it references is updated to contain the

unslept amount (the request time minus the time actually slept).

  The nanosleep system call

causes the process to sleep for the specified time.

Currently only microsecond  sleep resolution can be obtained.

Examples:

@code

/*

 * Detailed description: Sample usage of nanosleep system call.

 */

#include <stdio.h>

#include <time.h>

int main()

{

 struct timespec tim, tim2;

   tim.tv_sec = 1;

   tim.tv_nsec = 500;

   if(nanosleep(&tim; , &tim2;) < 0 )   {

      printf("Nano sleep system call failed 

");

      return -1;

   }

   printf("Nano sleep successfull 

");

  return 0;

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

Nano sleep successfull

@endcode

@see sleep()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock_getcpuclockid(pid_t pid, clockid_t* clock_id)

@param pid

@param clock_id

Note: As Symbian OS exposes only 'wall clock time' at user level, only CLOCK_REALTIME 

  is supported for all the clock-based APIs. Any value for pid except "0" is considered as invalid

  and for "0" the supported 'clock_id' i.e, CLOCK_REALTIME is returned.

Refer to  clock_gettime() for the documentation

@see adjtime()

@see ctime()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  clock_nanosleep (clockid_t clock_id, int flags,

       const struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec *rmtp)

@param clock_id

@param flags

@param rqtp

@param rmtp

For full documentation, see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/clock_nanosleep.html

Note: As Symbian OS exposes only 'wall clock time' at user level, only CLOCK_REALTIME

  is supported for all the clock-based APIs.

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  asctime_r(const struct tm *tm, char *buf)

@param tm

@param buf

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  ctime_r(const time_t *clock, char *buf)

@param clock

@param buf

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  gmtime_r(const time_t *clock, struct tm *result)

@param clock

@param result

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  localtime_r(const time_t *clock, struct tm *result)

@param clock

@param result

Refer to  ctime() for the documentation

@see gettimeofday()

@see getenv()

@see time()

@see tzset()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  strptime(const char * buf, const char * fmt, struct tm * tm)

@param buf

@param fmt

@param tm

@return   Upon successful completion, strptime returns the pointer to the first character in buf that has not been required to satisfy the specified conversions in fmt .

It returns NULL if one of the conversions failed.

  The strptime function parses the string in the buffer buf according to the string pointed to by fmt ,

and fills in the elements of the structure pointed to by tm .

The resulting values will be relative to the local time zone.

Thus, it can be considered the reverse operation of strftime .

 The fmt string consists of zero or more conversion specifications and

ordinary characters.

All ordinary characters are matched exactly with the buffer, where

white space in the fmt string will match any amount of white space

in the buffer.

All conversion specifications are identical to those described in strftime .

 Two-digit year values, including formats \%y and \%D ,

are now interpreted as beginning at 1969 per POSIX requirements.

Years 69-00 are interpreted in the 20th century (1969-2000), years

01-68 in the 21st century (2001-2068).

 If the fmt string does not contain enough conversion specifications to completely

specify the resulting struct tm ,

the unspecified members of tm are left untouched.

For example, if format is "\%H:\%M:\%S",

only tm_hour , tm_sec and tm_min will be modified.

If time relative to today is desired, initialize the tm structure with today's date before passing it to strptime .

Examples:

@code

#include <string.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <time.h>

#include <locale.h>

int main()

{

    struct tm tm;

    char buf[255];

    char *locale;

    locale = setlocale(LC_TIME,"en_GB.ISO-8859-1");

    if( locale != NULL)

    {

       strptime("2001-11-12 18:31:01", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm;);

       printf("sec = %d min = %d hours = %d 

Year = %d Month = %d day = %d

",

       tm.tm_sec,tm.tm_min,tm.tm_hour,tm.tm_year,tm.tm_mon,tm.tm_mday);

       strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d %B %Y %H:%M:%S", &tm;);

       puts(buf);

       strptime("Mon","%a", &tm;);

       strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%a", &tm;);

       puts(buf);

    }

    else

    printf("Failed to set locale");

}

@endcode

 Output

@code

sec = 1 min = 31 hours = 18

Year = 101 Month = 10 day = 12

12 November 2001 18:31:01

Mon

@endcode

@see scanf()

@see strftime()

Bugs:

 Both the \%e and \%l format specifiers may incorrectly scan one too many digits

if the intended values comprise only a single digit

and that digit is followed immediately by another digit.

Both specifiers accept zero-padded values,

even though they are both defined as taking unpadded values. 

The \%p format specifier has no effect unless it is parsed after hour-related specifiers.

Specifying \%l without \%p will produce undefined results.

Note that 12AM

(ante meridiem)

is taken as midnight

and 12PM

(post meridiem)

is taken as noon. 

The \%U and \%W format specifiers accept any value within the range 00 to 53

without validating against other values supplied (like month

or day of the year, for example). 

The \%Z format specifier only accepts time zone abbreviations of the local time zone,

or the value "GMT".

This limitation is because of ambiguity due to of the over loading of time

zone abbreviations.

One such example is EST which is both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Australia Summer Time. 

The strptime function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in the fmt argument. 

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  timer_create (clockid_t __clock_id,

                         struct sigevent *__restrict __evp,

                         timer_t *__restrict __timerid)                          

@param __clock_id

@param __evp

@param __timerid

For full documentation, see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/timer_create.html

Note:  As Symbian OS exposes only 'wall clock time' at user level, only CLOCK_REALTIME 

  is supported for all the clock-based APIs.

@see timer_settime()

@see timer_delete()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  timer_delete (timer_t __timerid)                         

@param __timerid

For full documentation, see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/timer_delete.html

@see timer_create()

@see timer_settime()

@publishedAll

@externallyDefinedApi

*/

/** @fn  timer_settime(timer_t __timerid, int __flags,

                          const struct itimerspec *__restrict __value,

                          struct itimerspec *__restrict __ovalue)                          

@param __timerid

@param __flags

@param __value

@param __ovalue

For full documentation, see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/timer_settime.html 

Note: This description also covers the timer_gettime() and timer_getoverrun() functions.

Note:  As Symbian OS exposes only 'wall clock time' at user level, only CLOCK_REALTIME 

  is supported for all the clock-based APIs. At the user level, Symbian OS supports upto a

  maximum of 1 ms resolution timer (RTimer::HighRes ()) upon which the timer emulation solution is based.

  As the re-registrations for a periodic timer happen in the user mode, the timer expirations

  might show up a possible unspecified latency.

Examples:

@code

/*

 * Detailed description: 

 */

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <signal.h>

#include <pthread.h>

#include <unistd.h>

void sighler (union sigval val)

	{

	printf("In the handler with val:%d\n", val.sival_int);

	}

int main()

	{

	timer_t timerid;

	struct sigevent sig;

	pthread_attr_t attr;

	pthread_attr_init( &attr );

	sig.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD;

	sig.sigev_notify_function = sighler;

	sig.sigev_value.sival_int =20;

	sig.sigev_notify_attributes = &attr;

	if(0 == timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &sig, &timerid))

		{