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ctime pREPC+ System Calls
ctime Converts the calendar time to a string.
#include
char *ctime (
const time_t *timer /* calendar time */
)
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The ctime() function converts the calendar time pointed to by timer to a string
representation of the form:
Sun Jan 1 12:30:13 1995\n\0
The time is represented in local time. This call is equivalent to:
asctime(localtime(timer))
The calendar time is generally obtained through a call to time().
The buffer used by ctime() to hold the formatted output string is a statically
allocated character array and is overwritten each time the function is called. To save
the contents of the string, you need to copy it elsewhere.
timer Points to the calendar time.
The ctime() function returns the pointer to the converted calendar time string.
Refer to Appendix B.
This function is non-reentrant as it returns a pointer to a statically allocated data
area. The reentrant version of this function is ctime_r().
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