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Add some words to make clear that the string returned by 

ctime() and asctime() is null-terminated.
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-07-23 20:38:15 +00:00
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" Modified 2001-12-13, joey, aeb
.\" Modified 2004-11-16, mtk
.\"
.TH CTIME 3 2008-04-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH CTIME 3 2008-07-23 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
asctime, ctime, gmtime, localtime, mktime, asctime_r, ctime_r, gmtime_r,
localtime_r \- transform date and time to broken-down time or ASCII
@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ The call
.BI ctime( t )
is equivalent to
.BI asctime(localtime( t )) \fR.
It converts the calendar time \fIt\fP into a string of the form
It converts the calendar time \fIt\fP into a
null-terminated string of the form
.sp
.RS
"Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993\\n"
@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ It need not set \fItzname\fP.
The
.BR asctime ()
function converts the broken-down time value
\fItm\fP into a string with the same format as
\fItm\fP into a null-terminated string with the same format as
.BR ctime ().
The return value points to a statically allocated string which might be
overwritten by subsequent calls to any of the date and time functions.