How to get the current date information only?

[YiMkiE]

I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current date
information only, without the time. I have my code here:

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

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char* t;

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
t = asctime(timeinfo);
printf(t);

return 0;
}

How to output only the year, month and day of t?

[Ian Collins]

YiMkiE wrote:

I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current date
information only, without the time. I have my code here:

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

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char* t;

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
t = asctime(timeinfo);
printf(t);

return 0;
}

How to output only the year, month and day of t?

Use the appropriate fields in 'timeinfo'.

--
Ian Collins.

[Robert Gamble]

YiMkiE wrote:

I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current date
information only, without the time. I have my code here:

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

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char* t;

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
t = asctime(timeinfo);
printf(t);

return 0;
}

How to output only the year, month and day of t?

Lookup the strftime function.

Robert Gamble

[YiMkiE]

Do you mean the tm_year? How to refer to that?
I know this is a stupid question..

Ian Collins 寫�：

YiMkiE wrote:

I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current date
information only, without the time. I have my code here:

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

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char* t;

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
t = asctime(timeinfo);
printf(t);

return 0;
}

How to output only the year, month and day of t?

Use the appropriate fields in 'timeinfo'.

--
Ian Collins.

[Nelu]

"YiMkiE" <yi****@gmail.comwrites:

I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current date
information only, without the time. I have my code here:

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

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char* t;

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
t = asctime(timeinfo);
printf(t);

return 0;
}

How to output only the year, month and day of t?

You either can lookup the members of the struct tm structure
and display only the fields you want or you can use the strftime
function that generates formatted text using different date/time
format specifiers.

--
Ioan - Ciprian Tandau
tandau _at_ freeshell _dot_ org (hope it's not too late)
(... and that it still works...)

[Morris Dovey]

YiMkiE (in 11**********************@a14g2000cwb.googlegroups. com)
said:

| I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current
| date information only, without the time. I have my code here:
|
| #include <stdio.h>
| #include <time.h>
| #include <string.h>
|
| int main ()
| {
| time_t rawtime;
| struct tm * timeinfo;
| char* t;
|
| rawtime = time (NULL);
| timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
| t = asctime(timeinfo);
| printf(t);
|
| return 0;
| }
|
| How to output only the year, month and day of t?

Just write your own function to build the string you want:

char *YiMkiE_date(const struct tm *t)
{ char *mon_name[12] =
{ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
"Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
};
static char date[] = "YYYY MMM DD\n";

sprintf(date,"%d %s %d\n", 1900 + t->tm_year,
mon_name[t->tm_mon], t->tm_mday);
return date;
}

Easy, isn't it?

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

[YiMkiE]

Thanks all, I have solved the date problem. But now I am getting
another trouble.
I need to concatenate a string and the date string I got to form a file
name.

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

int main()
{
int e;
FILE *fp;
char fname[13] = "AMH_TdySales-";
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char t[9];

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
strftime(t ,10 , "%Y%m%d", timeinfo);

strncat(fname, t, 8);
printf(fname);

fp = fopen(fname, "r");
if (fp == NULL)
e = 0;
fclose(fp);

fp = fopen("log.txt", "a");
if (e == 0)
fprintf(fp, "%s - File not found!!\n", fname);
fclose(fp);

return 0;
}

After concatenating the two, the end of line (or array?) character
appears in the middle, causing error. How to remove that?

[jjf]

Morris Dovey wrote:

YiMkiE (in 11**********************@a14g2000cwb.googlegroups. com)
said:

| I am a newbie of C and I need to do a program to get the current
| date information only, without the time. I have my code here:
|
| #include <stdio.h>
| #include <time.h>
| #include <string.h>
|
| int main ()
| {
| time_t rawtime;
| struct tm * timeinfo;
| char* t;
|
| rawtime = time (NULL);
| timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
| t = asctime(timeinfo);
| printf(t);
|
| return 0;
| }
|
| How to output only the year, month and day of t?

Just write your own function to build the string you want:

char *YiMkiE_date(const struct tm *t)
{ char *mon_name[12] =
{ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
"Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
};
static char date[] = "YYYY MMM DD\n";

sprintf(date,"%d %s %d\n", 1900 + t->tm_year,
mon_name[t->tm_mon], t->tm_mday);
return date;
}

Easy, isn't it?

Not compared with using strftime(), which also looks after locales for
you. Why re-invent the wheel?

[Chris Torek]

In article <11**********************@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups .com>
YiMkiE <yi****@gmail.comwrote:

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

int main()
{
int e;
FILE *fp;
char fname[13] = "AMH_TdySales-";

This array has room for 13 "char"s. The initializer:

"AMH_TdySales-\0"
0 1
1234567890123***ran off the end here

*does* fit, just barely, by C's rule that says that the terminating
'\0' of a string literal initializer is discarded when initializing
an array whose size is just big enough to hold everything except the
'\0'.

Or, to put it another way, had you written:

char fname[] = "AMH_TdySales-";

the array would have size *14*, not 13.

The end result is that fname[] contains a sequence of bytes that
is *not* terminated with a '\0', and is therefore not a string
(by definition).

time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char t[9];

The array "t" has size 9 (in "C bytes", aka chars).

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
strftime(t ,10 , "%Y%m%d", timeinfo);

The array "t" has size 9. Why did you tell strftime() to write at
most *ten* characters into a 9-character array? However, %Y needs
4, %m needs 2, and %d needs 2; and 4+2+2 = 8 -- so strftime() will
write the appropriate 8 characters, then add a ninth '\0' character
to make the result a string, and this does fit.

strncat(fname, t, 8);

The strncat() function needs its first argument to be a string --
a sequence of "char"s terminated by a '\0' character. fname does
not hold a string, so the effect is undefined.

Even if it were OK, this tells strncat to add at most 8 characters
to the original string. If the original string has 13 non-'\0'
characters followed by a '\0', the resulting string will have 13+8
= 21 non-'\0' characters followed by a '\0'. So it needs at least
22 bytes of space.
--
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Wind River Systems
Salt Lake City, UT, USA (40°39.22'N, 111°50.29'W) [phone]
email: forget about it http://web.torek.net/torek/index.html
Reading email is like searching for food in the garbage, thanks to spammers.

[YiMkiE]

Solved!
Thanks very much Chris!

Chris Torek 寫�：

In article <11**********************@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups .com>
YiMkiE <yi****@gmail.comwrote:

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

int main()
{
int e;
FILE *fp;
char fname[13] = "AMH_TdySales-";

This array has room for 13 "char"s. The initializer:

"AMH_TdySales-\0"
0 1
1234567890123***ran off the end here

*does* fit, just barely, by C's rule that says that the terminating
'\0' of a string literal initializer is discarded when initializing
an array whose size is just big enough to hold everything except the
'\0'.

Or, to put it another way, had you written:

char fname[] = "AMH_TdySales-";

the array would have size *14*, not 13.

The end result is that fname[] contains a sequence of bytes that
is *not* terminated with a '\0', and is therefore not a string
(by definition).

time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
char t[9];

The array "t" has size 9 (in "C bytes", aka chars).

rawtime = time (NULL);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
strftime(t ,10 , "%Y%m%d", timeinfo);

The array "t" has size 9. Why did you tell strftime() to write at
most *ten* characters into a 9-character array? However, %Y needs
4, %m needs 2, and %d needs 2; and 4+2+2 = 8 -- so strftime() will
write the appropriate 8 characters, then add a ninth '\0' character
to make the result a string, and this does fit.

strncat(fname, t, 8);

The strncat() function needs its first argument to be a string --
a sequence of "char"s terminated by a '\0' character. fname does
not hold a string, so the effect is undefined.

Even if it were OK, this tells strncat to add at most 8 characters
to the original string. If the original string has 13 non-'\0'
characters followed by a '\0', the resulting string will have 13+8
= 21 non-'\0' characters followed by a '\0'. So it needs at least
22 bytes of space.
--
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Wind River Systems
Salt Lake City, UT, USA (40°39.22'N, 111°50.29'W) [phone]
email: forget about it http://web.torek.net/torek/index.html
Reading email is like searching for food in the garbage, thanks to spammers.

[Keith Thompson]

"YiMkiE" <yi****@gmail.comwrites:

Solved!
Thanks very much Chris!

Please read <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>. Thanks.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[YiMkiE]

Keith Thompson 寫�：

"YiMkiE" <yi****@gmail.comwrites:

Solved!
Thanks very much Chris!

Please read <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>. Thanks.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

ooops, sorry!
will pay attention to this!

[Default User]

YiMkiE wrote:

>
Keith Thompson 寫�：

"YiMkiE" <yi****@gmail.comwrites:

Solved!
Thanks very much Chris!

Please read <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>. Thanks.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org
<http://www.ghoti.net/~kstSan Diego Supercomputer Center
<* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kstWe must do something. This is
something. Therefore, we must do this.

ooops, sorry!
will pay attention to this!

Also trim the quoted material. In particular, remove .sigs (the bits
after the --). A good newsreader does that for you, alas you are using
Google so you have to do it manually.

Brian

[YiMkiE]

I am using google. How to read this group in outlook express or some
other newsreader? (though this may be a bit off topic)

[Dann Corbit]

"YiMkiE" <yi****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@k73g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

>I am using google. How to read this group in outlook express or some
other newsreader? (though this may be a bit off topic)

<totally OT response>
Click on one of these:
http://www.elfqrin.com/hacklab/pages/nntpserv.php
</totally OT response>