Todays time and date

[wozza]

Hi,
Im writing a program and I would like to display todays time and date in western standard time
eg
Mon May 27th 19:10:52 WST 2002

Im using time_t like this:

#include <time.h>

..program.....

time_t datetime;
...for loop....
time(&datetime);
printf ("%s", ctime(&datetime));
...rest of program

Now is there another way I can display the date and time but so that its western standard time as well
like this:
Mon May 27th 19:10:52 WST 2002

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[bigtamscot]

#include <time.h>

  struct tm today;
  time_t time_in_secs;
  

  time_in_secs = time(NULL);
  today =*localtime(&time_in_secs);
  printf("%2d/%02d/%02d ", today.tm_mday,
                                     today.tm_mon+1, today.tm_year-100);

[wozza]

ok, thanks

[wozza]

can I just ask
what 2d/%02d/%02d does exactly
Im not familar with the 2 in that particular use

[Hammer]

can I just ask
what 2d/%02d/%02d does exactly
Im not familar with the 2 in that particular use

It's a format modifer. 2 is the field width, and 02 means two chars wide, padded with 0's.

[Driveway]

http://www.cprogramming.com/fod/ctime.html
This might help. If I remeber it's in C++ though.
BTW, does VC++ .NET have the function timeGetTime()? If so what header?

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Driveway
http://www.cprogramming.com/fod/ctime.html
This might help. If I remeber it's in C++ though.

Yes it is C++, and it is also the same function as the original poster was already using.

[Driveway]

Oh, oops, wasn't me. It was, err, my evil twin cat