zephyr/include/sys/timeutil.h
Peter A. Bigot 9d25b671bc sys: timeutil: add module
Add a generic API to provide the inverse operation for gmtime and as a
home for future generic time-related functions that are not in POSIX.

Signed-off-by: Peter A. Bigot <pab@pabigot.com>
2019-07-17 14:04:44 +02:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2019 Peter Bigot Consulting, LLC
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
*/
/**
* @file
* @brief Utilities supporting operation on time data structures.
*
* POSIX defines gmtime() to convert from time_t to struct tm, but all
* inverse transformations are non-standard or require access to time
* zone information. timeutil_timegm() implements the functionality
* of the GNU extension timegm() function.
*/
#ifndef ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_SYS_TIMEUTIL_H_
#define ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_SYS_TIMEUTIL_H_
#include <time.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/**
* @brief Convert broken-down time to a POSIX epoch offset in seconds.
*
* @param tm pointer to broken down time.
*
* @return the corresponding time in the POSIX epoch time scale.
*
* @see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/timegm.3.html
*/
time_t timeutil_timegm(struct tm *tm);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_SYS_TIMEUTIL_H_ */