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Python time ctime() Function

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Description:

This function convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time. If secs is not provided or None, the current time as returned by time() is used. This function is equivalent to asctime(localtime(secs)). Locale information is not used by ctime().

Syntax:

time.ctime([ sec ])

Parameters:

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Example:

#!/usr/bin/python
import time

print "time.ctime() : %s" % time.ctime()

This produces following result:

time.ctime() : Tue Feb 17 10:00:18 2009

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