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Man Page: ctime

Operating Environment: bsd

Section: 3f

TIME(3F)																  TIME(3F)

NAME
time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time
SYNOPSIS
integer function time() character*(*) function ctime (stime) integer stime subroutine ltime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9) subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9)
DESCRIPTION
Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. This is the value of the UNIX system clock. Ctime converts a system time to a 24 character ASCII string. The format is described under ctime(3). No 'newline' or NULL will be included. Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT. The order and meaning of each element returned in tarray is described under ctime(3).
FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a
SEE ALSO
ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F) 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 TIME(3F)
Related Man Pages
stime(2) - linux
ctime(3f) - bsd
gmtime(3f) - bsd
ctime(3) - minix
stime(2) - hpux
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