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===== asctime =====
   

<code c>
   char *asctime(const struct tm *timeptr);
</code>


=== Description ===
The function asctime() converts the time in the struct ptr to a character string of the format:
Day Month Date Hour:Minute:Second Year\n\0
    
===== asctime C Sourcecode Example =====
<code c>
/* 
 * asctime example code
 * http://code-reference.com/c/time.h/asctime 
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
 
int main ( void )
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;
 
  time ( &rawtime );
  timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
  printf ( "Current Date is: %s", asctime (timeinfo) );
 
  return 0;
}
</code>

==== asctime output ====
    Current Date is: Sat Apr 21 13:13:46 2012


==== see also ====
[[c:time.h:localtime|localtime()]] [[c:time.h:gmtime|gmtime()]] [[c:time.h:time|time()]] [[c:time.h:ctime|ctime()]]