PX_DATE2STRING(3)

NAME 🦋

PX_date2string — okay so bestie, this one takes a Paradox date and turns it into a cute little formatted string. Convert paradox date into formatted string, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <paradox.h>

char * PX_date2string(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, long date, const char *format)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what it does is: it creates a string representation of a paradox date, exactly how you asked for it in the format parameter. Main character energy, honestly.

Now, where does that date even come from? Two options, bestie, pick your fighter:

• You grabbed it with PX_get_data_long(3) — but only after you called PX_get_record(3) first, mkay? Order matters. 🙈
• Or you just straight-up used the long value sitting in the pxval_t struct that PX_retrieve_record(3) handed you. Easy. Iconic. No extra steps. 👑

Under the hood it's secretly using the PX_timestamp2string(3) function — not me exposing the internal collab 🤝 — so your format string can contain all the chars documented over there in PX_timestamp2string(3). But lowkey? Only the ones that have anything to do with the date are gonna give you reasonable results. The rest is giving... nothing. 💀

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

• On success: a pointer to the string. Slay. ✨
• On failure: NULL. Sad girl hours. 😭

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• PX_timestamp2string(3)
• PX_time2string(3)

Go read those too, they're the sequel, iykyk. 📚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. Thank you for your service, king. 🫶

Anyways, that's the whole page — it lives in the Library Functions Manual and it's filed under PX_DATE2STRING(3), so if you ever need to find it again, that's your girl. Byeee, go format some dates bestie 🦋✨💜