Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: system 'date apis' in linux kernel | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:01:16 +0100 |
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Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 16:11 +0530, ysgrifennodd Chinmaya Mishra: > Hi. . . . > > In the Linux kernel is there any apis are available > which takes an unsigned long as an argument and > return the date in string format. Just like ctime() in > user space.
No, and thats an extremely complex process so best kept outside of the kernel.
In particular the kernel has no idea about - Summer time shifting - Leap second rules for different timezones - Locales
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