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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-10-30 18:17:03 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-10-30 18:17:03 (GMT) |
commit | 4e303aad05d5133aee6465e7a953e9b54410ecec (patch) | |
tree | 996ab1aabea5ae01a7aabee82459b3e9ea2da9cb /Doc | |
parent | b1510d506072f3857aaa8b1f9996520ee998804d (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex index 988e9a4..193d71b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex @@ -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} |