.\" Modified 2001-12-13, joey, aeb
.\" Modified 2004-11-16, mtk
.\"
-.TH CTIME 3 2013-12-30 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CTIME 3 2014-08-19 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
asctime, ctime, gmtime, localtime, mktime, asctime_r, ctime_r, gmtime_r,
localtime_r \- transform date and time to broken-down time or ASCII
and
.BR localtime ()
return a pointer to static data and hence are not thread-safe.
-Thread-safe versions
+The thread-safe versions,
.BR asctime_r (),
.BR ctime_r (),
.BR gmtime_r ()
and
-.BR localtime_r ()
-are specified by SUSv2, and available since libc 5.2.5.
+.BR localtime_r (),
+are specified by SUSv2.
POSIX.1-2001 says:
"The
.BR localtime_r ()
does not have this requirement.
.\" See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
-For portable code
+For portable code,
.BR tzset (3)
should be called before
.BR localtime_r ().
.BR tzset (3),
.BR time (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
-and information about reporting bugs,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.