[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Harmandeep Singh]

Harmandeep Singh  added the comment:

I have created a PR for the patch that I submitted, as this is my first 
contribution to the docs, I need to know that how do we decide if a change has 
to make an entry to `Misc/NEWS.d/next/` or needs `skip news` tag?

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Harmandeep Singh]

Harmandeep Singh  added the comment:

I have created the PR as mentioned, I have added the example for time.ctime() 
and also added the note to time.asctime.

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Antti Haapala]

Antti Haapala  added the comment:

This should be added to `asctime` too.

The space-padded behaviour complies with the C standard which was the intent - 
after all, before it was using C `asctime` directly, and says that unlike C 
asctime, it doesn't have the newline character, meaning that as a rule, it 
should then behave similar to it, and only exception is marked.

Unfortunately MSVC asctime has been incorrectly using leading zeros 
(https://stackoverflow.com/q/53894148/918959).

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Harmandeep Singh]

Changes by Harmandeep Singh :


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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Harmandeep Singh]

Harmandeep Singh added the comment:

I was bored, I generated a patch for this.

Hope this helps :)

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com added the comment:

 asctime() docs say it's a 24 char string.

I'm not sure that all platform conform to this specification... which is not 
future proof!

$ ./python 
Python 3.3.0a0 (default:af1a9508f7fa, Feb 14 2012, 01:18:15) 
[GCC 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1)] on linux
 import time
 time.ctime(2**38)
'Wed Jul 14 08:09:04 10680'
 len(time.ctime(2**38))
25

I suppose that you can say that the month day is formatted as 2 characters 
(padded with a space if needed).

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:

Or you could give the strftime specification string that produces the 
equivalent output.

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Roger Caldwell]

New submission from Roger Caldwell ro...@monkey.net:

Hi.  I found this today and thought I would report.  I could not find anywhere 
that it was expected behavior.  When using time.ctime() to convert a date which 
only has 1 digit in the day position it returs a string with 2 spaces after the 
month vs one.

example
In [2]: import os,time

In [3]: time.ctime(os.path.getmtime('file.cfg'))
Out[3]: 'Tue Dec 13 18:52:58 2011'

In [4]: time.ctime(os.path.getmtime('14d-1.log'))
Out[4]: 'Tue Feb  1 19:53:11 2011'

Is this expected behavior?

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:

That's definitely the expected behavior. It's the same as the C library version 
of ctime().

But I couldn't find it documented in the Python docs, so I'm changing this to a 
documentation issue.

Thanks for the report.

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[issue13927] Extra spaces in the output of time.ctime

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:

asctime() docs say it's a 24 char string.

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