Re: system 'date apis' in linux kernel

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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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