asctime

Converts a struct tm time to a string.

char * asctime (struct tm time);

Required Header
<time.h>

Return Value

This function returns a pointer to the string result.

Parameters

time

  The time to be converted to a string

Remarks

The asctime function return a string representing time. The string returned uses an internal buffer which is thread-specific. Each thread that calls this function should copy the result before making additional calls to this function. Multiple threads calling this function will not interfere with one another.

The format of the returned string is: "Tue Aug 05 18:30:00 2003\n"

Time

See Also    ctime, gmtime, localtime, mktime, time