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How do you pronounce strftime?

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Jonathan Apodaca

My brain tends to produce the following lexemes: "str" + "f" + "time", so I say, "stir-eff-time". Breaking it up like this helps me know the important bits that denote what the function does.

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GunsyX

stir-ef-time

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AndyRosenberg

“striff”-time

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Ben Halpern

I tend to think of it as "strafe-time" for some reason 🤷‍♂️

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bittnkr

Sometimes string-for-time but also string-of-time. But I never really thought about.
It's like C's sprintf() sometimes string-printf and others sprint-f.

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Eljay-Adobe • Edited

In my head, I pronounce it "string format time" or "string formatted time".

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Paweł Kowalski • Edited

I think its from string-formatted-time. In C printf = print formatted.

I will leave it at that, since prononuncing those weird "words" doesnt really matter imo ;)

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Yawar Amin

Like surftime but with a T.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

string-f-time

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Amit

S-T-R-F Time