X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fsupport%2Flyxtime.cpp;h=3150825d753f80c3dd95ae15b6147b5c4a8d5114;hb=12554c93d81f75f87c34040fd7737048d3518d6d;hp=ad97912d3ed94135af1279b41c1e15322b709444;hpb=06d65218c0cbde21060257cc565d60476635eb1c;p=lyx.git

diff --git a/src/support/lyxtime.cpp b/src/support/lyxtime.cpp
index ad97912d3e..3150825d75 100644
--- a/src/support/lyxtime.cpp
+++ b/src/support/lyxtime.cpp
@@ -12,9 +12,18 @@
 
 #include "support/lyxtime.h"
 
-using std::string;
+#include "support/debug.h"
+#include "support/environment.h"
+#include "support/lstrings.h"
+#include "support/qstring_helpers.h"
+
+#include <QDateTime>
+#include <QLocale>
+
+using namespace std;
 
 namespace lyx {
+namespace support {
 
 time_t current_time()
 {
@@ -30,4 +39,27 @@ string const formatted_time(time_t t, string const & fmt)
 	return string(date);
 }
 
+
+time_t from_asctime_utc(string t)
+{
+	// Example for the format: "Sun Nov  6 10:39:39 2011\n"
+	// Generously remove trailing '\n' (and other whitespace if needed)
+	t = trim(t, " \t\r\n");
+	// toDateTime() is too stupid to recognize variable amounts of
+	// whitespace (needed because ctime() outputs double spaces before
+	// single digit day numbers and hours)
+	t = subst(t, "  ", " ");
+	QString const format("ddd MMM d H:mm:ss yyyy");
+	QLocale loc("C");
+	QDateTime loc_dt = loc.toDateTime(toqstr(t), format);
+	if (!loc_dt.isValid()) {
+		LYXERR(Debug::LOCALE, "Could not parse `" << t
+				<< "´ (invalid format)");
+		return static_cast<time_t>(-1);
+	}
+	loc_dt.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);
+	return loc_dt.toTime_t();
+}
+
+} // namespace support
 } // namespace lyx