Wide Character C/C++ Date, Time, and Currency Functions

Internationalization (I18n) Issue:

Different locales represent dates and times differently and have many variations. Please see time/date for more information. These functions use LC_TIME category to provide locale based formatting.

I18n Solution:

Use the appropriate equivalent wide character string function when reengineering an application for internationalization to correctly accommodate wide character string arguments.

I18n Discussion:

Wide character manipulation functions handle unique code point values for each character in the character set as specified by the compilation environment. For an internationalized application using the UTF-16 or UCS-2 Unicode character sets, the wchar_t * has a size of 16 bits. For UTF-32 or UCS-4, the wchar_t * has a size of 32 bits.

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_wctime

Locale-Sensitive C++ Methods