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<h3 class="section">8.3 <code>ctime</code>&mdash;convert time to local and format as string</h3>
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<p><strong>Synopsis</strong>
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<pre class="example">#include &lt;time.h&gt;
char *ctime(const time_t *<var>clock</var>);
char *ctime_r(const time_t *<var>clock</var>, char *<var>buf</var>);

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<p><strong>Description</strong><br>
Convert the time value at <var>clock</var> to local time (like <code>localtime</code>)
and format it into a string of the form
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<pre class="smallexample"> Wed Jun 15 11:38:07 1988\n\0
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<p>(like <code>asctime</code>).
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<p><strong>Returns</strong><br>
A pointer to the string containing a formatted timestamp.
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<p><strong>Portability</strong><br>
ANSI C requires <code>ctime</code>.
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<p><code>ctime</code> requires no supporting OS subroutines.
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