fprintf and ctime without passing \n from ctime

You can use a combination of strftime() and localtime() to create a custom formatted string of your timestamp:

char s[1000];

time_t t = time(NULL);
struct tm * p = localtime(&t);

strftime(s, 1000, "%A, %B %d %Y", p);

printf("%s\n", s);

The format string used by ctime is simply "%c\n".

You can use strtok() to replace \n with \0. Here's a minimal working example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>

int main() {
    char *ctime_no_newline;
    time_t tm = time(NULL);

    ctime_no_newline = strtok(ctime(&tm), "\n");
    printf("%s - [following text]\n", ctime_no_newline);

    return 0;
}

Output:

Sat Jan  2 11:58:53 2016 - [following text]