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bpo-13927: time.ctime and time.asctime return string explantion (GH-11303)

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* bpo-13927: time.ctime and time.asctime return string explantion

* Add note explaining that time.ctime and time.asctime returns a space padded date value in case it contains a single digit date

* Reformat linebreaks
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Harmandeep Singh 2019-09-12 15:52:30 +05:30 • committed by Paul Ganssle
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@ -127,9 +127,12 @@ Functions
Convert a tuple or :class:`struct_time` representing a time as returned by
:func:`gmtime` or :func:`localtime` to a string of the following
form: ``'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'``. If *t* is not provided, the current time
as returned by :func:`localtime` is used. Locale information is not used by
:func:`asctime`.
form: ``'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'``. The day field is two characters long
and is space padded if the day is a single digit,
e.g.: ``'Wed Jun 9 04:26:40 1993'``.
If *t* is not provided, the current time as returned by :func:`localtime`
is used. Locale information is not used by :func:`asctime`.
.. note::
@ -203,10 +206,15 @@ Functions
.. function:: ctime([secs])
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing
local time. If *secs* is not provided or :const:`None`, the current time as
returned by :func:`.time` is used. ``ctime(secs)`` is equivalent to
``asctime(localtime(secs))``. Locale information is not used by :func:`ctime`.
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string of a form:
``'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'`` representing local time. The day field
is two characters long and is space padded if the day is a single digit,
e.g.: ``'Wed Jun 9 04:26:40 1993'``.
If *secs* is not provided or :const:`None`, the current time as
returned by :func:`.time` is used. ``ctime(secs)`` is equivalent to
``asctime(localtime(secs))``. Locale information is not used by
:func:`ctime`.
.. function:: get_clock_info(name)