CTIME — Convert a time into a string

Description

CTIME converts a system time value, such as returned by TIME8, to a string. The output will be of the form ‘Sat Aug 19 18:13:14 1995’.

This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however, only one form can be used in any given program unit.

Syntax

CALL CTIME(TIME, RESULT).
RESULT = CTIME(TIME).

Arguments

TIME The type shall be of type INTEGER.
RESULT The type shall be of type CHARACTER and of default kind. It is an INTENT(OUT) argument. If the length of this variable is too short for the time and date string to fit completely, it will be blank on procedure return.

Return value

The converted date and time as a string.

Example



program test_ctime

    integer(8) :: i

    character(len=30) :: date

    i = time8()



    ! Do something, main part of the program



    call ctime(i,date)

    print *, 'Program was started on ', date

end program test_ctime

Standard

GNU extension

Class

Subroutine, function

`TIME`	The type shall be of type `INTEGER`.
`RESULT`	The type shall be of type `CHARACTER` and of default kind. It is an `INTENT(OUT)` argument. If the length of this variable is too short for the time and date string to fit completely, it will be blank on procedure return.