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ctime

Convert a time_t type to a character array.

Compatibility:

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

Prototype: 
#include <time.h>

char *ctime(const time_t *timer);
Parameters:

Parameters for this facility are:

timer  
const time_t *  
The address of the time_t variable  

Remarks:

The ctime() function converts a time_t type to a character array with the same format as generated by asctime().

Return:

ctime() returns a null terminated character array pointer containing the converted time_t value.

See Also:

"asctime"

"strftime"

Example of ctime() usage.:
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	time_t systime;

	systime = time(NULL);
	puts(ctime(&systime));

	return 0;
}

Output:
Wed Jul 20 13:32:17 1994






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