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md_src_plugins_date_README - Plugin: date

• infos = Information about the date plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = Thomas Waser thomas.waser@libelektra.org
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/needs =
• infos/provides =
• infos/recommends =
• infos/placements = presetstorage postgetstorage
• infos/status = recommended productive maintained reviewed conformant compatible coverage specific unittest tested libc final
• infos/metadata = check/date check/date/format
• infos/description = validates date and time strings

The following representation standards of dates and times are currently supported and can be use by setting check/date to:

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POSIX

see STRPTIME(3) for more information. a valid format has to be specified in check/date/format

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ISO8601

see ISO8601. possible format strings specified in check/date/format, default: datetime complete+truncated:

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Dates/Time:

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Date:

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calendardate calendar dates: day of month - month - year.

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weekdate calendar week and day numbers, e.g. YYYY-Www-D

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ordinaldate year + day of the year

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date calendardate, weekdate, and ordinaldate combined

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Time:

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timeofday 24-hour timekeeyping system

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utc coordinates universal time. either by appending a time-zone designator or the time difference to UTC to timeofday

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Combined: datetime combination of Dates and Time according to th ISO8601 specification.

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Representation: if no representation is specified, complete+reduced+truncated is used as default.

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complete complete representation, dates are separated by hyphens, times by colon. e.g. YYYY-MM-DD or hh:mm:ss

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reduced reduced precision, e.g. YYYY-MM, or hh

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truncated truncated representation, hyphens used to indicate omitted components. e.g. --MM-DD or --ss

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complete+reduced+truncated allow all 3 representations

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complete+reduced allow only complete + reduced representation

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complete+truncated allow only complete + truncated representation

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reduced+truncated allow only reduced + truncated representation.

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Format: if no format is specified both basic and extended are treated as valid.

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basic no separating character between individual components of a date, time or datetime expressen

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extended separating characters between components. date components separated by hyphen, time components by colon.

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RFC2822

a set of possible format strings derived from rfc2822 3.3, no format string needed.