X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:38:47 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: localtime Message-ID: <20110615173847.GB23078@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4DF8CF3D DOT 40104 AT gmail DOT com> <4DF8EA79 DOT 2060404 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF8EA79.2060404@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple