Simple C question

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 14 January 2005 09:03 am, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Bruce Marshall took 24 lines to 
write:
> > I have a program written in C that I wrote long, long ago in the other
> > operating system.
> >
> > The only thing it needs to bring it over to Linux is a call to get the
> > current date and time.
>
> Several approaches. I usually use time() to get the calendar time
> and then ctime() to format it a a proper string:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> 	time_t now;
>
> 	time(&now);
> 	printf("%s", ctime(&now));
> 	return 0;
> }
>
> You can also do something like asctime(localtime(&now));. Note that ctime()
> appends the terminating newline ('\n'), so you don't need to include it
> in your format string.
>
> Kurt

Hmmm  probably could have dug that out of a book I have here written by 
someone named Wall....   :-)

Thanks....!


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