On 03/13/16 13:31 , Sami Kerola wrote:
> POSIX.1-2008 marks asctime() and asctime_r() as obsolete, recommending the
> use of strftime(3) instead.

stftime uses locale, asctime is not. And if you want *locale-specific*
time presentation, it is "%c" --- it can be very different from your "%a
%b...", e.g. compare with attached

   gcc -o asctime asctime.c
   LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 ./asctime