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:

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int
main ()
{
  time_t *current;
  time(current);
  printf("%s", ctime(current));
 
  return 0;
}

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always returns the following:
Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970

the following program:

Code:

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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;
}

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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....

here is code which get the system time

Code:

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

int
main ()
{
  time_t current;
  time(&current); 
printf("%s", ctime(&current));
  getchar();
  return 0;
}

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my ouput

Code:

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Tue May 24 09:59:17 2005

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s.s.harish

and second bit of code

Code:

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#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;
}

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s.s.harish

cheers, your code works just fine...