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PMPARSETIME(3) Library Functions Manual PMPARSETIME(3)
__pmParseTime - parse time point specification
#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
#include <pcp/impl.h>
int __pmParseTime(const char *string, struct timeval *logStart,
struct timeval *logEnd, struct timeval *rslt, char **errMsg);
cc ... -lpcp
__pmParseTime is designed to encapsulate the interpretation of a time
point specification in command line switches for use by the PCP
client tools.
This function expects to be called with the time point specification
as string. If the tool is running against PCP archive(s), you also
need to supply the start time of the first (only) archive as
logStart, and the end of the last (only) archive as logEnd. See
pmGetArchiveLabel(3) and pmGetArchiveEnd(3) for how to obtain values
for these parameters. If the tool is running against a live feed of
performance data, logStart should be the current time (but could be
aligned on the next second for example), while logEnd should have its
tv_sec component set to INT_MAX.
The rslt structure must be allocated before calling __pmParseTime.
You also need to set the current PCP reporting time zone to correctly
reflect the -z and -Z command line parameters before calling
__pmParseTime. See pmUseZone(3) and friends for information on how
this is done.
If the conversion is successful, __pmParseTime returns 0, and fills
in rslt with the time value defined by the input parameters. If the
argument strings could not be parsed, it returns -1 and a dynamically
allocated error message string in errMsg. Be sure to free(3) this
error message string.
PMAPI(3), pmGetArchiveEnd(3), pmGetArchiveLabel(3),
pmNewContextZone(3), pmNewZone(3), pmParseInterval(3),
pmParseTimeWindow(3), pmUseZone(3), __pmConvertTime(3) and
__pmParseCtime(3).
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