From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:18:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
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Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
explicit that locale information is not used.  There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
index 5eae40e3cf97..2358a3c2c95b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Convert a tuple representing a time as returned by \function{gmtime()}
 or \function{localtime()} to a 24-character string of the following form:
 \code{'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'}.  If \var{tuple} is not provided, the
 current time as returned by \function{localtime()} is used.
+Locale information is not used by \function{asctime()}.
 \note{Unlike the C function of the same name, there is no trailing
 newline.}
 \versionchanged[Allowed \var{tuple} to be omitted]{2.1}
@@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string
 representing local time. If \var{secs} is not provided, the current time
 as returned by \function{time()} is used.  \code{ctime(\var{secs})}
 is equivalent to \code{asctime(localtime(\var{secs}))}.
+Locale information is not used by \function{ctime()}.
 \versionchanged[Allowed \var{secs} to be omitted]{2.1}
 \end{funcdesc}