Thread: time.h: time returns different times

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    time.h: time returns different times

    sorry for posting nearly directly but i doubt i would find the answer into so many posts returned by the search.... so,

    linux date command on a shell return the date and time correctly... my following simple c program

    Code:
    int
    main ()
    {
      time_t *current;
      time(current);
      printf("%s", ctime(current));
      
      return 0;
    }
    always returns the following:
    Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970

    the following program:
    Code:
    int
    main ()
    {
      time_t *current;
      char dateStr[50];
      
      time(current);
      printf("%s", ctime(current));
      
      strftime(dateStr, sizeof(dateStr), "%d/%m/%Y %Z", localtime(current));
      printf("%s\n", dateStr);
      
      return 0;
    }
    always returns:
    Wed Apr 22 12:51:56 1970
    22/04/1970 BST

    can someone explain what is going on as i really have no clue why this is happening....

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    here is code which get the system time
    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<time.h>
    
    int
    main ()
    {
      time_t current;
      time(&current);  
    printf("%s", ctime(&current));
      getchar();
      return 0;
    }
    my ouput
    Code:
    Tue May 24 09:59:17 2005
    s.s.harish

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    and second bit of code
    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<time.h>
    
    int
    main ()
    {
      time_t current;
      char dateStr[50];
      
      time(&current);
      printf("%s", ctime(&current));
      
      strftime(dateStr, sizeof(dateStr), "%d/%m/%Y %Z", localtime(&current));
      printf("%s\n", dateStr);
      getchar();
      return 0;
    }
    s.s.harish

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    cheers, your code works just fine...

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