what is literal meaning of asctime() ?

[satellite03]

what is literal meaning of asctime() for calculating time.

is it asctime == ascii time ?

 

[Salem]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I would think it means.

Though I hope that in an EBCDIC environment, it would return a pointer to an EBCDIC string rather than an ASCII string.

Just one of those things which may have a misleading name, an accident of history.

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[ArkM]

For calculating asctime() do nothing. It returns a pointer to the character (so called ASCiiZ) string result in static storage, e.g.:

"Wed Apr 14 08:35:52 2004\n"

Now you may print the string - that's all (don't forget about newline char in the string)...
It is a C/C++ Standard library member (comes from Unix world)...

 

[PerFnurt]

I'd say its a rather good name, you can guess what it does and there's a high probability your guess is right .

Not like for example getch; a name that implies it returns a char when it infact returns an int. Brrrr....



/Per

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