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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>dmi_get_date</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API" /><link rel="up" href="ch10.html#id2686550" title="DMI Interfaces" /><link rel="prev" href="re448.html" title="dmi_find_device" /><link rel="next" href="re450.html" title="dmi_walk" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>dmi_get_date</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re448.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">DMI Interfaces</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re450.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="dmi_get_date"><a id="API-dmi-get-date"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>dmi_get_date —
parse a DMI date
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">bool <b class="fsfunc">dmi_get_date </b>(</code></td><td>int <var class="pdparam">field</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int * <var class="pdparam">yearp</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int * <var class="pdparam">monthp</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int * <var class="pdparam">dayp</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2687345"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>field</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
data index (see enum dmi_field)
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>yearp</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
optional out parameter for the year
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>monthp</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
optional out parameter for the month
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dayp</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
optional out parameter for the day
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2687424"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
The date field is assumed to be in the form resembling
[mm[/dd]]/yy[yy] and the result is stored in the out
parameters any or all of which can be omitted.
</p><p>
If the field doesn't exist, all out parameters are set to zero
and false is returned. Otherwise, true is returned with any
invalid part of date set to zero.
</p><p>
On return, year, month and day are guaranteed to be in the
range of [0,9999], [0,12] and [0,31] respectively.
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