/* Time Functions Example Copyright (C) 1991-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see . */ #include #include int main (void) { /* This buffer is big enough that the strftime calls below cannot possibly exhaust it. */ char buf[256]; /* Get the current time. */ time_t curtime = time (NULL); /* Convert it to local time representation. */ struct tm *lt = localtime (&curtime); if (!lt) return 1; /* Print the date and time in a simple format that is independent of locale. */ strftime (buf, sizeof buf, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", lt); puts (buf); /*@group*/ /* Print it in a nicer English format. */ strftime (buf, sizeof buf, "Today is %A, %B %d.", lt); puts (buf); strftime (buf, sizeof buf, "The time is %I:%M %p.", lt); puts (buf); return 0; } /*@end group*/