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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:45:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: localtime
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On 06/15/2011 1:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Won't strlen(tout) resolve to 128?

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