current date

[placid]

how would i get the current date in the format of DD/MM/YYYY, do i use
functions in time.h and how would i compile it (linking) ?

[Walter Roberson]

In article <11**********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
placid <Bu****@gmail.com> wrote:

how would i get the current date in the format of DD/MM/YYYY, do i use
functions in time.h
Yes, use time() to fetch the current time, localtime() to break
it down into a struct tm, then extract the structure members of that
that you are interested in and print them yourself.

Caution: the tm_year field is "years since 1900", so be sure to
add 1900 to the value before trying to print it as YYYY !!
and how would i compile it (linking) ?

No special compilation / linking requirements: use whatever
method is appropriate to your system to compile and link C programs.
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers

[placid]

Walter Roberson wrote:

In article <11**********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
placid <Bu****@gmail.com> wrote:

how would i get the current date in the format of DD/MM/YYYY, do i use
functions in time.h

Yes, use time() to fetch the current time, localtime() to break
it down into a struct tm, then extract the structure members of that
that you are interested in and print them yourself.

Caution: the tm_year field is "years since 1900", so be sure to
add 1900 to the value before trying to print it as YYYY !!

and how would i compile it (linking) ?

No special compilation / linking requirements: use whatever
method is appropriate to your system to compile and link C programs.
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence."

-- Ann Landers
Thanks man, got it working man

[Michael Wojcik]

In article <de**********@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, ro******@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes:

In article <11**********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
placid <Bu****@gmail.com> wrote:

how would i get the current date in the format of DD/MM/YYYY, do i use
functions in time.h

Yes, use time() to fetch the current time, localtime() to break
it down into a struct tm, then extract the structure members of that
that you are interested in and print them yourself.

Or use strftime:

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
time_t Now = time(NULL);
struct tm Date = *localtime(&Now);
char DateBuf[12];

strftime(DateBuf, sizeof DateBuf, "%d/%m/%Y", &Date);
puts(DateBuf);
return 0;
}

That's what strftime is for.

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