_strtime, _wstrtime

Copy the time to a buffer.

char *_strtime( char *timestr );

wchar_t *_wstrtime( wchar_t *timestr );

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

Return Value

Each of these functions returns a pointer to the resulting character string timestr.

Parameter

timestr

Time string

Remarks

The _strtime function copies the current local time into the buffer pointed to by timestr. The time is formatted as hh:mm:ss where hh is two digits representing the hour in 24-hour notation, mm is two digits representing the minutes past the hour, and ss is two digits representing seconds. For example, the string 18:23:44 represents 23 minutes and 44 seconds past 6 P.M. The buffer must be at least 9 bytes long.

_wstrtime is a wide-character version of _strtime; the argument and return value of _wstrtime are wide-character strings. These functions behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

Example

/* STRTIME.C */

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

void main( void )
{
   char dbuffer [9];
   char tbuffer [9];
   _strdate( dbuffer );
   printf( "The current date is %s \n", dbuffer );
   _strtime( tbuffer );
   printf( "The current time is %s \n", tbuffer );
}

Output

The current date is 03/23/93 
The current time is 13:40:40 

Time Management Routines

See Also   asctime, ctime, gmtime, localtime, mktime, time, _tzset