Need help to convert date to double

Hi all,

here is the code

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char * date;

time_t timer;
timer = time(NULL);
date = asctime(localtime(&timer));

printf("Current Date: %s", date);


getchar();
return 0;

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I'm trying to print a double number to generate a unique key

thank you

 

could not get you can you be a little bit more specific?

 

Sure! If you look at the code, it prints the date as a string, for example the result will be

Fri July 04 2008 12:00 p.m.

I want to print this instead: 07042008

or 070420081200

or convert the sting "Fri July 04 2008 12:00p.m." to double

I tried atof() but gives me 0.000

thank you

 

you can do that by using _strdate function

Code:

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

int main(void)
{
	char datebuf[9];
	_strdate(datebuf);
	printf("Date : %s",datebuf);
	return 0;
}

similarly you may use _strtime for time and if you want to make a program where you enter the date in the format you specified you may convert that string to the output you want without using any function,if you want that please reply here

 

and i have posted an article on date and time management functions of C, please visit that, that may help you

 

Thank you so much guys ! I was using CVI which got its own time functions, but what you gave me helped.

 

My pleasure :pleased: