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

* 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

diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst
index 4faa0bbebc5b1f3fe16a23f7a45c32d9ba3807be..65ab679669eb3dfe66bcb73ab7b55e0bd8a075ed 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst
@@ -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)