_strtime

copy the current time into a given buffer

Synopsis:

#include <time.h>
char *_strtime( char *timestr )

Description:

The _strtime() function copies the current time to 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

SS

is two digits representing seconds.

The buffer must be at least 9 bytes long.

Returns:

a pointer to the resulting text string timestr

See also:

asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), localtime(), mktime(), _strdate(), time(), tzset()

Examples:

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

void main()
  {
    char *time;
    char timebuff[9];

    time = _strtime( timebuff );
    printf( "%s\n", time );
  }

Classification:

WATCOM

Systems:

All (except Netware, DOS/PM)