Date Function

[miclus]

Hi, I was wondering if there is a simple way to get the current date in C?

[jim mcnamara]

Here is one way - also look up struct tm in help or edit time.h to see what struct tm.

#include <time.h>
.............
/* code block */
   time_t lt;
   struct tm t, *tmptr;
   lt=time(NULL);
   tmptr=localtime( & lt );
   printf("%s\n",asctime(tmptr));

Most compilers keep a static string that asctime or ctime populates, and the contents of the string changes with each new call to asctime- you need to make your own copy of the string.

Note: to get the characters to display I added extra spaces around the ampersand and lt in localtime()

[miclus]

Works great. Thanks.