Quoth Mr Ralph Corderoy:
'There's POSIX,
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asctime.html,
that might always be available as a local man page, e.g. asctime(3p).'
Thanks. My local man page is different. This page provides
the necessary datum,
sprintf(result, "%.3s %.3s%3d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d %d\n"
I'd just been using what 'date' returns, which does everything
else correctly. Of course it was little work to update my archives
and the script that does the archiving.
Thanks.
russell bell
