Neither strftime nor strptime describe the fields inside struct tm, and while
they eventually point that way in references, strftime provides no guidance as
to which of its nine (9!) references I should read next. I don't like
guessing.


Index: strftime.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/time/strftime.3,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -p -r1.34 strftime.3
--- strftime.3  29 Jan 2015 01:46:31 -0000      1.34
+++ strftime.3  30 Dec 2015 16:46:29 -0000
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ The
 .Fn strftime
 function formats the information from
 .Fa timeptr
+(as described in
+.Xr mktime 3 )
 into the buffer
 .Fa buf
 according to the string pointed to by
Index: strptime.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/time/strptime.3,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -p -r1.24 strptime.3
--- strptime.3  4 Dec 2014 00:10:40 -0000       1.24
+++ strptime.3  30 Dec 2015 16:47:17 -0000
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ function parses the string
 according to the specified
 .Fa format
 and fills matching data into the structure
-.Fa tm .
+.Fa tm
+(described in
+.Xr mktime 3 ) .
 .Pp
 The
 .Fa format

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