Thread: Does Anybody Know How I Could Get The Date (In Short Format)

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    Does Anybody Know How I Could Get The Date (In Short Format)

    Does Anybody Know How I Could Get The Date (In Short Format)

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    You can get the current time with time(), convert it to a tm structure with either gmtime() or localtime() and get a formatted string with strftime() from the tm structure.

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    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <time.h>
    
    main() {
            char date_Ymd[8+1];
            struct tm *gsapdh;
            time_t gsaintps;
            gsaintps=time(NULL);
            gsapdh = localtime(&gsaintps);
            strftime(date_Ymd, 9, "%Y%m%d", gsapdh);
    
            printf("Date_Ymd: [%s]\n",date_Ymd);
    
    }
    You can format as ever you wish.

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    Don't forget,

    Code:
    int main() {
    Try ctime().

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    Hey Groorj
    Thanx man, really appreciate that easy to understand, and was pretty useful for my assignment, cheers buddy :-)

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