libc - Calendar Time

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Calendar Time

This section describes facilities for keeping track of dates and times according to the Gregorian calendar.

There are three representations for date and time information:

* Menu:

* Simple Calendar Time:: Facilities for manipulating calendar time.
* High-Resolution Calendar:: A time representation with greater precision.
* Broken-down Time:: Facilities for manipulating local time.
* Formatting Date and Time:: Converting times to strings.
* TZ Variable:: How users specify the time zone.
* Time Zone Functions:: Functions to examine or specify the time zone.
* Time Functions Example:: An example program showing use of some of the time functions.

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