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@node ctime
@section @code{ctime}
@findex ctime
POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ctime.html}
Gnulib module: ctime
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On native Windows platforms (mingw, MSVC), this function works incorrectly
when the environment variable @code{TZ} has been set by Cygwin.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function may overflow its internal buffer if an invalid year is passed.
@item
The @code{ctime} function need not be reentrant, and consequently is
not required to be thread safe. Implementations of @code{ctime}
typically write the timestamp into static buffer. If two threads
call @code{ctime} at roughly the same time, you might end up with the
wrong date in one of the threads, or some undefined string. There is
a re-entrant interface @code{ctime_r}.
@item
Native Windows platforms (mingw, MSVC) support only a subset of time
zones supported by GNU or specified by POSIX. @xref{tzset}.
@end itemize
A more flexible function is @code{strftime}. However, note that it is
locale dependent.
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