time.h making me wad grrrr

well i have read up on the header file and i cant seem to find any function or any way to conver the date from that jumble of number(345345345345), simple text( sun janauary....) or an asm (690x00x6753) looking date to this format yyyymmdd! help this is driving me insane... i have tried everything i can think of in my compiler! im stumped :(

Pass the address of the value you get from time() to the ctime() function. This is an ANSI function so should be implemented. There are probably a whole bunch of other routines on your system, but you don't say what that is, or what compiler you are using.

Code:

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#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main( void )
{
  time_t Time;

  time( &Time );
  printf( "The time is %s\n", ctime( &Time ) );
  return 0;
}

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Back in the days of Cobol this was a huge problem!

Code:

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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01  DATE
    05  YEAR-OUT          PIC 4(X).
    05  MONTH-OUT      PIC 2(X).
    05  DAY-OUT          PIC 2(X).

PROCEDURE-DIVISION.

MOVE YEAR-IN TO YEAR-OUT
MOVE MONTH-IN TO MONTH-OUT
MOVE DAY-IN TO DAY-OUT.

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im using msvc++ 4.0 and the ctime isnt quite what i want i tried that already i want the date to be stored like this yyyymmdd eg: 20020122 <- that would be todays date...

pass the address of the time_t (or a time_t pointer) to localtime() and extract the month, day, year from the tm struct that is returned. Look in your online help section or the time.h file for the tm struct declaration.

Another idea is the function strftime().

Code:

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#include <time.h>
#include <iostream.h>

int main( void )
{
  time_t Time;
  char str[10];

  time( &Time );
  strftime(str,10,"%Y%m%d",localtime(&Time));
  cout << "date:" << str << endl;
  return 0;
}

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thank you swoopy!!!!! w00t! i knew i was close!