## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} asctime (@var{tm_struct})
## Convert a time structure to a string using the following 
## format: "ddd mmm mm HH:MM:SS yyyy".  For example:
##
## @example
## @group
## asctime (localtime (time ()))
##      @result{} "Mon Feb 17 01:15:06 1997"
## @end group
## @end example
##
## This is equivalent to @code{ctime (time ())}.
## @seealso{ctime, localtime, time}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = asctime (tm_struct)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  retval = strftime ("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y\n", tm_struct);

endfunction


%!test
%! t = time ();
%! assert(strcmp (asctime (localtime (t)), ctime (t)));

%!error asctime ();
%!error asctime (1, 2);