Re: [ProgSoc] Getting the time and ports

[Chocky <chocky@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Matt Beauregard wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:19:38AM +1000, Chocky wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, gleNN wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chocky wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does anyone know how to get the current time in a string format in C? I
> > > > seem to have forgotten how...
> > > 
> > > man ctime. Returns string in the format:
> > > 
> > >      Fri Sep 13 00:00:00 1986\n\0
> > > 
> > Done... but it doesn't state what the datatype time_t is, so I don't know
> > what to pass it.
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The functions ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() all take as an
> 		 argument a
>      time value representing the time in seconds since the Epoch
> 		 (00:00:00
>      UTC, January 1, 1970; see time(3)).

I may be just being blond here.. but I still can't work out the datatype.
Like if I shove an interger in I get..  

Reciever.c:63: warning: passing arg 1 of `asctime' makes pointer from
integer wi thout a cast

I know it a pointer of a datatype time_t... just what structure
is time_t?

Chocky


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