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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:23:05PM -0400, Tod wrote:
>On 06/15/2011 11:26 AM, Tod wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anything change in regards to the C localtime function since 2007?
>> I've got a program with a function that uses it to present the date and
>> time that I just changed. The time isn't appearing only the date.
>>
>> No errors, no dumps, just no time. Most bizarre.
>>
>>
>> TIA - Tod
>
>
>Incidentally, here's how I'm valuing the time.  Worked with the 2007 
>version of cygwin1.dll (not that I'm blaming cygwin):
>
>char * getTime(char *tout)
>    {
>     time_t      now;
>     struct      tm tim;
>
>     now = time(NULL);
>     tim = *(localtime(&now));
>     strftime(tout,strlen(tout),"%m/%d/%Y:%H:%M:%S",&tim);
>
>     return(tout);
>    }
>
>tout is a 128 byte character array.

If that's really what you're using then strlen(tout) seems obviously
wrong.  It should be 128.

cgf

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