Write the low-order 8 bits of the time to the disk file

Hello, I'm writing a c program for class and it's asking me to write the low-order 8 bits of the time to the disk file. We are supposed to use the time system call and then write it to a file.

Currently i have everything working doing this:

unsigned char c;

c = 0xae;

write(fd, &c, 1);

and to get the time I'm using: time_t time(time_t *timer);

my question is how do i save time to c?

something like: c = time; so i can write it to the file...

Any help would be great, thanks.

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Originally Posted by kfuller002

Hello, I'm writing a c program for class and it's asking me to write the low-order 8 bits of the time to the disk file. We are supposed to use the time system call and then write it to a file.

Currently i have everything working doing this:

unsigned char c;

c = 0xae;

write(fd, &c, 1);

and to get the time I'm using: time_t time(time_t *timer);

my question is how do i save time to c?

something like: c = time; so i can write it to the file...

Any help would be great, thanks.

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Couple of things...
1) check the FAQs for this site... and please use code tags when posting code.
2) If you're going to ask for help, please show us the code you are having trouble with, not a bunch of fragments that mean nothing.

For your question...

Code:

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int c = time(0) & 0xFF;

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