+/*
+ * Format a struct tm with strftime().
+ * If the pointer to the struct tm is null, that means that the
+ * routine to convert a time_t to a struct tm failed; the localtime()
+ * and gmtime() in the Microsoft Visual Studio C library will fail,
+ * returning null, if the value is before the UNIX Epoch.
+ */
+const char *
+nd_format_time(char *buf, size_t bufsize, const char *format,
+ const struct tm *timeptr)
+{
+ if (timeptr != NULL) {
+ if (strftime(buf, bufsize, format, timeptr) != 0)
+ return (buf);
+ else
+ return ("[nd_format_time() buffer is too small]");
+ } else
+ return ("[localtime() or gmtime() couldn't convert the date and time]");
+}
+