LwDTC latest-develop documentation

Welcome to the documentation for version latest-develop.

LwDTC is lightweight, platform independent library for date, time and cron utility management.

Main motivation comes from the necessity of simple cron for my own personal home automation project, with 1 second granularity.

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Features

  • Written in C (C11)

  • Platform independent, easy to use

  • Support for date, time and cron utilities

  • Ultra-lightweight cron library for embedded systems

  • Cron supports numbers only, no string dates/months, quicker parsing

  • Support for time.h struct tm data structure for time operations

  • Date and time range support with CRON syntax

  • User friendly MIT license

Requirements

  • C compiler

  • Few kB of non-volatile memory

Contribute

Fresh contributions are always welcome. Simple instructions to proceed:

  1. Fork Github repository

  2. Respect C style & coding rules used by the library

  3. Create a pull request to develop branch with new features or bug fixes

Alternatively you may:

  1. Report a bug

  2. Ask for a feature request

License

MIT License

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