oops... forgot to add one to the month for humans... oh, well... in C, 0 feels natural for january...
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > short version: man ctime. > > longer version: > > lola% more now.c > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <time.h> > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { > time_t now; > struct tm *d; > > time(&now); > printf("hello world. It is now %10ld seconds since the epoch began\n", > now); > > d = localtime(&now); > printf("for mere humans, today is: %d/%d/%d\n", > 1900+d->tm_year,d->tm_mon, d-> > tm_mday ); > } > lola% > > > lola% ./now > hello world. It is now 1293986153 seconds since the epoch began > for mere humans, today is: 2011/0/2 > lola% > > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Leslie S Satenstein < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Happy New Year. >> >> I have been trying to find a simple example to retrieve the computer date >> using documented routines. >> >> I want to retrieve three integers corresponding to year, month and day. >> >> I took the time() function and subtracted the number of seconds we are >> behind GMT 0, and converted seconds to days since 1979-01-01 >> >> From there I did calculate the current date. However, rather than >> supporting my own code, I would have liked to have use localtime(), and >> time(), etc, but... >> >> I get compile errors for tm->year, tm->mon and tm->mday. >> >> Searching the includes, results in no function that returns the integters >> Ditto for a google search. >> >> Any standard function to complete and return the tm structure as defined >> in time.h would be appreciated. >> >> >> ------------------ >> >> Regards >> Leslie >> Mr. Leslie Satenstein >> 40 years in IT and going strong. >> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, >> and tomorrow will be even better. >> >> mailto:[email protected] >> alternative: [email protected] >> www.itbms.biz / www.eclipseguard.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > >
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