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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 04), Eugene Grosbein said:
> ache@freebsd.org wrote 8 years ago in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c:
> 
> p += sprintf(p, "%.15s ", ctime(&now) + 4);
> 
> What is '+ 4' for?

ctime returns a date in the format:

Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0

The +4 skips the day name.

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	Dan Nelson
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