Elektra: Plugin: date

Elektra 0.8.24

Plugin: date

- infos = Information about the date plugin is in keys below
- infos/author = Thomas Waser thoma.nosp@m.s.wa.nosp@m.ser@l.nosp@m.ibel.nosp@m.ektra.nosp@m..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:

- `POSIX`

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

- `ISO8601`

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

  - Dates/Time:
    - Date:
      - `calendardate` calendar dates: day of month - month - year.
      - `weekdate` calendar week and day numbers, e.g. YYYY-Www-D
      - `ordinaldate` year + day of the year
      - `date` `calendardate`, `weekdate`, and `ordinaldate` combined
    - Time:
      - `timeofday` 24-hour timekeeyping system
      - `utc` coordinates universal time. either by appending a time-zone designator or the time difference to `UTC` to `timeofday`
    - Combined: `datetime` combination of Dates and Time according to th ISO8601 specification.
  - Representation: if no representation is specified, `complete+reduced+truncated` is used as default.
    - `complete` complete representation, dates are separated by hyphens, times by colon. e.g. YYYY-MM-DD or hh:mm:ss
    - `reduced` reduced precision, e.g. YYYY-MM, or hh
    - `truncated` truncated representation, hyphens used to indicate omitted components. e.g. –MM-DD or –ss
    - `complete+reduced+truncated` allow all 3 representations
    - `complete+reduced` allow only `complete` + `reduced` representation
    - `complete+truncated` allow only `complete` + `truncated` representation
    - `reduced+truncated` allow only `reduced` + `truncated` representation.
  - Format: if no format is specified both `basic` and `extended` are treated as valid.
    - `basic` no separating character between individual components of a `date`, `time` or `datetime` expressen
    - `extended` separating characters between components. `date` components separated by hyphen, `time` components by colon.

- `RFC2822`

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

## Dependencies

POSIX.1-2001

## Examples

TBD

## Limitations

Testing timezone designators currently only works with glibc. Unit tests using timezone designators are locale dependent.