time-t – Tarik Billa

Format specifiers for implementation-defined types like time_t

November 29, 2023 by Tarik

Usually you can use a cast to convert the operand to some type for which you know the right format. Your proposed solution: time_t t = time(NULL); printf(“%s”, t); clearly will not work, since time_t is a numeric type, not char*. We know, in general, that time_t is an arithmetic type. Something like this: printf(“%ld\n”, … Read more

What primitive data type is time_t? [duplicate]

April 20, 2023 by Tarik

It’s platform-specific. But you can cast it to a known type. printf(“%lld\n”, (long long) time(NULL));

Get the current time in C [duplicate]

December 16, 2022 by Tarik

Copy-pasted from here: /* localtime example */ #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> int main () { time_t rawtime; struct tm * timeinfo; time ( &rawtime ); timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime ); printf ( “Current local time and date: %s”, asctime (timeinfo) ); return 0; } (just add void to the main() arguments list in order … Read more