asctime() - I/O Function

asctime() is an I/O function that converts the contents of a structure "struct" pointed by the pointer "ptr" into the format "day month date hours:minutes:seconds year\no". This function converts it to a C string containing a human-readable version.
The structure pointer passed to this function is either obtained using localtime() or gmttime(). The formatted output string returned by this function is stored in a static character array. This array is overwritten each time the function is called.

Syntax:

Example :

#include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> int main( ) { struct tm *p; time_t t; t = time(NULL); p = localtime(&t); printf("The current localtime is :: %s\n",asctime(p)); return 0; }

Result :
In the above example asctime() is used to convert the structure and find the current localtime.