CFTIME(4)                            SysV                            CFTIME(4)



NAME
     cftime - language specific strings

DESCRIPTION
     You may define formats to which cftime and ascftime (see ctime(3C)) will
     default by placing specially structured files in the directory
     /usr/lib/cftime.  In those cases where the CFTIME environment variable is
     not set or is null, cftime will default to the format specified by the
     file in /usr/lib/cftime whose name is the same as that contained in the
     LANGUAGE environment variable.  If the LANGUAGE environment variable is
     not set, null, or set to an unsupported language, cftime and ascftime
     will default to the last language requested or to usa_english, if none
     was requested last.

     You may create one format file per language.  The lines of each must be
     ordered as follows:

     o  Abbreviated month names (in order)
     o  Month names (in order)
     o  Abbreviated weekday names (in order; Sunday is the first day of the
        week)
     o  Weekday names (in order; Sunday is the first day of the week)
     o  Default strings that specify formats for local time (%x) and local
        date (%X)
     o  Default format for ctime, if the argument for cftime is zero or null.
     o  AM (ante meridian) string
     o  PM (post meridian) string

     Each string must be on a line by itself.  All white space is significant.

EXAMPLE
     The following lines (where the ellipses are expanded) constitute
     /usr/lib/cftime/usa_english, which defines formats for American English:

          Jan
          Feb
          ...
          January
          February
          ...
          Sun
          Mon
          ....
          Sunday
          Monday
          ....
          %H.%M.%S
          %m/%d/%y
          %a %b %d %T %Z %Y
          AM
          PM

FILES
     /usr/lib/cftime               Directory for language-
                                   specific format files
     /usr/lib/cftime/danish
     /usr/lib/cftime/finnish
     /usr/lib/cftime/french
     /usr/lib/cftime/german
     /usr/lib/cftime/italian       Language-specific format
     /usr/lib/cftime/norwegian     files

     /usr/lib/cftime/spanish
     /usr/lib/cftime/swedish
     /usr/lib/cftime/usa_english

SEE ALSO
     ctime(3C)