The Cygnus C Support Library

`asctime`---format time as string

Synopsis

#include <time.h>
char *asctime(const struct tm *timp);

#include <time.h>
char *_asctime_r(const struct tm *timp, void *reent);

Description
Format the time value at timp into a string of the form

 Wed Jun 15 11:38:07 1988\n\0

The string is generated in a static buffer; each call to asctime overwrites the string generated by previous calls.

_asctime_r provides the same function as asctime, but is reentrant. The extra argument reent is a pointer to a reentrancy structure.

Returns
A pointer to the string containing a formatted timestamp.

Portability
ANSI C requires asctime.

asctime requires no supporting OS subroutines.