What does the "p" in strptime stand for?

I guess it stands for "parse" because its reverse function is called strftime in Python's time module wherein the "f" I can reasonably guess stands for "format".

p = pointer. It returns a pointer to a char.

BTW According to my K&R there is a

char *strpbrk(cs,ct);

This 'p' also refers to the returned pointer.