difftime

[patrickv]

Hello All,
I have a problem with difftime.
I have 2 strings containing a time. I must calculate the difference of this 2 strings into seconds.
This is my code:

double Seconds;
double Timeout;
unsigned char firsttime[8];
unsigned char secondtime[8];
char *timestr;
time_t first;
time_t second;

// check time out of 300 seconds between datwsh and WsDate
timestr= pTrxIn->DatWsh; //string with date time
memcpy(firsttime,timestr+8,8); //timestring

timestr= pTrxIn->WsDate; //string with datetime
memcpy(secondtime,timestr+8,8); //timestring

first = (time_t)atol(firsttime);
second = (time_t)atol(secondtime);

Seconds = (difftime(second,first));
Timeout = atof(pTrxIn->TimeOut); //string containing "300"
if (Seconds > Timeout)
{
return "timeout reached";
}

return 0;

He gives me the time in 100? Not in 60?
I do somthing wrong, but what?
Regards,
Patrick

[gpraghuram]

difftime returns the difference in total number of seconds.
If you want to display it in minutes and seconds you want to convert it manually

Raghuram