strftime

Description:

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public size_t strftime (char[] s, string format)

Generates a printed representation of the date, in a locale-specific way.

Works just like the platform's C library strftime function, but only accepts date-related formats; time-related formats give undefined results. Date must be valid. Unlike strftime (which uses the locale encoding), works on a UTF-8 format string and stores a UTF-8 result.

This function does not provide any conversion specifiers in addition to those implemented by the platform's C library. For example, don't expect that using strftime would make the %F provided by the C99 strftime work on Windows where the C library only complies to C89.

Parameters:

s	destination buffer
format	format string
date	valid Date
slen	buffer size

Returns:

number of characters written to the buffer, or 0 the buffer was too small