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     The asctime function converts a time stored as a structure to a
     character string. The <timeptr> value is usually obtained from a
     call to the gmtime or localtime function, both of which return a
     pointer to a tm structure. See the tm structure for information
     about its fields.
 
     The string result produced by asctime contains exactly 26
     characters. It has the form of the following example:
 
          Wed Jan 02 02:03:55 1980\n\0
 
     A 24-hour clock is used. All fields have a constant width. The
     newline character (\n) and the null character (\0) occupy the
     last two positions of the string. The asctime function uses a
     single statically allocated buffer to hold the return string. Each
     call to this routine destroys the result of the previous call.
 
     Return Value
 
     The asctime function returns a pointer to the character string
     result. There is no error return.
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