Robert Elz said:
The original asctime() specified exactly what the out buffer would contain.
Did it? How? That is, what did old manual pages actually say?
The really poor thing about this, is that the time functions (dst and zone representations excluded) have been one of the C/unix functions that have never been subject to the "my version is different than yours" syndrome that plagued so many of the other interfaces. There was never any justification for any changes to this interface.
I'm not convinced that there has actually been a change. I've fired off a query to WG14 about the history of this interface. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | |