Thread: date command

is there a way i can display time(only) in hh:mm:ss format within a c code

i use ubuntu and i tried date command in linux within a printf command but it did not work

what is missing here

i'm new to this fourm and bit new to c programming

any helpful tutorial links?

thank you

http://www.cppreference.com/stddate/asctime.html

parse through it

it's bit complex to understand, is there any tutorial that has good explanation with the codeing
thnx

on Linux I'd use gettimeofday().

Originally Posted by Kennedy

on Linux I'd use gettimeofday().

is that command can be use in a c code

should help: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...ime/ctime.html

the function ctime() returns a c-style string. Instead of printing the returned value like in the example, you can store that into a c-style string variable and parse through it to find hh:mm:ss

Code:

char *str;

timer=time(NULL);
str = asctime(localtime(&timer));
str = str+11;
printf("%*.*s\n",0,9,str);

you could do something like this. But strftime would be recommended

ssharish2005