Okay, How do I get the current time of the day? All I want is a number between 0-23. I want it to use the systems clock, no messing around with custom timezones or such ( this is the reason im posting here anyway, as I dont really get the timezone thing in getimeofday() ) Can anybody post a short snippet of code to help me out?

not in linux at the moment, but umm...

is that what you mean?

man 3 asctime