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asctime

Syntax

 
#include <time.h>

char *asctime(const struct tm *tptr);

Description

This function returns an ASCII representation of the time represented by tptr. The string returned is always 26 characters and has this format:

 
Sun Jan 01 12:34:56 1993\n\0

The string pointed to is in a static buffer and will be overwritten with each call to asctime. The data should be copied if it needs to be preserved.

The layout of the struct tm structure is like this:

 
struct tm {
  int    tm_sec;    /* seconds after the minute [0-60] */
  int    tm_min;    /* minutes after the hour [0-59] */
  int    tm_hour;   /* hours since midnight [0-23] */
  int    tm_mday;   /* day of the month [1-31] */
  int    tm_mon;    /* months since January [0-11] */
  int    tm_year;   /* years since 1900 */
  int    tm_wday;   /* days since Sunday [0-6] */
  int    tm_yday;   /* days since January 1 [0-365] */
  int    tm_isdst;  /* Daylight Savings Time flag */
  long   tm_gmtoff; /* offset from GMT in seconds */
  char * tm_zone;   /* timezone abbreviation */
};

Return Value

A pointer to the string.

Portability

ANSI/ISO C C89; C99
POSIX 1003.2-1992; 1003.1-2001

Example

 
time_t now;
time(&now);
printf("The current time is %s", asctime(localtime(&now)));


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