In the last episode (Jan 04), Eugene Grosbein said: > ache at 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com