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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-10-30 18:17:03 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-10-30 18:17:03 (GMT)
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Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
explicit that locale information is not used. There wasn't anything that implied it was, but this has confused users.
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@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Convert a tuple representing a time as returned by \function{gmtime()}
or \function{localtime()} to a 24-character string of the following form:
\code{'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'}. If \var{tuple} is not provided, the
current time as returned by \function{localtime()} is used.
+Locale information is not used by \function{asctime()}.
\note{Unlike the C function of the same name, there is no trailing
newline.}
\versionchanged[Allowed \var{tuple} to be omitted]{2.1}
@@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string
representing local time. If \var{secs} is not provided, the current time
as returned by \function{time()} is used. \code{ctime(\var{secs})}
is equivalent to \code{asctime(localtime(\var{secs}))}.
+Locale information is not used by \function{ctime()}.
\versionchanged[Allowed \var{secs} to be omitted]{2.1}
\end{funcdesc}