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Article #7356Re: Manipulating Dates
From: Giving C News a *HUG*
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 14:24
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 14:24
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goble@cs.washington.edu (Brian Goble) writes: > I need some C code to maniuplate dates. I need to be able to compute > the number of days between 2 dates difftime() /* Divide by 60*60*24 to get the difference in days */ > (or maybe compute the date to a > "serial" date like Excel does--number of days from 1/1/1900). time() /* Divide by 60*60*24 to get the number of days since 1970-01-01 */ > I also need to be able to determine what day of the week a given day > is (e.g. Tuesday). gmtime() /* Look at the tm_wday field of the returned structure */ > Any code or pointers to code would be much appreciated...thanx. Try looking up the standard "time.h" library calls in the manual? mathew
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Manipulating Dates Keywords: date Message-ID: <oJk642w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 26 Jun 91 14:24:35 GMT Article-I.D.: mantis.oJk642w164w References: <1991Jun25.205213.2693@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 24