Hello everybody! My question is very simple (it''s quite embarrassing for me), and sure is very easy to answer. How do I ask for the current date/time, and best convert it into a string in C? It would be very good if you could tell me the include-file as well where to find those functions. Thanks in advance! Indeterminatus --si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses--

Hey,boy,your question is not-so clear - what platform where your program will run and what computer language you will write the program?...

I am now suppose the answers to the above 2 questions are MS Windows and C/C++,so you can do that as the following:

#include "Windows.h"

...

SYSTEMTIME SysTime;

BOOL bRet=GetLocalTime(&SysTime);
if (bRet)
{
//call successful
TCHAR szTimeText[100];

//convert the date/time to a ANSI text string...
spritf(szTimeText,"%d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d",SysTime.wMouth,SysTime.wDay,SysTime.wYear,SysTime.wHour,SysTime.wYear.wMinute,SysTime.wYear.wSecond);

//Show the date/time...
printf("The current date & time is %s.",szTimeText);
}
else
{
//failed to call this API
}
...

Hope this helped!

#include

time_t seconds;
char time[];

seconds = time (NULL); //seconds since 1st january 1970

time = ctime(&seconds); //converting to a string

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