Thread: Need some help with fetching the time.

okey what I need help with is taking the time and putting it in a variabel so that I can use it to play around with so far I´ve read a ton of manuals but none tells me how to do it. So far I have figurd out that I should use ctime time or localtime along with tm_sec or tm_min (and so on) so um how do I take the clocks time and add it to a variabel so that I can count with it ( I only want a part of the time like seconds for instans)

(hope this is readabel I´ve goten much complants on using "bad" and "unreadabel" english.)

Maybe something like this:

Code:

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

int main(void)
{
  time_t tim = time(NULL);
  int ch;
  
  puts ("Press Enter to increment the time, q to quit");
  do
  {
    printf("Virtual time now: %s", ctime(&tim));
    tim += 1;
  } while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF && ch != 'q');
  
  return 0;
}

If you want to format the time output, check out strftime().

but your code doesn´t anser my question that only tells me how to print out the time witch I alrady know my question is how do I get JUST the SECONDS ? but thx for your help anyway

Originally posted by Shogun
but your code doesn´t anser my question that only tells me how to print out the time witch I alrady know my question is how do I get JUST the SECONDS ? but thx for your help anyway

Then you need to reread my post more carefully, the answers are there.

Code:

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

int main(void)
{
  time_t tim = time(NULL);
  char buf[BUFSIZ];
  strftime(buf, sizeof buf, "%S", localtime(&tim));
  puts(buf);
  return 0;
}

If this isn't what you want, be more specific.

I think thats exactly what I whant (thx a ton man (do you know for how long I`ve been looking for this ? ) if I use it the way I think I do I`m gonna rock at this