Get the current time in C

I want to get the current time of my system. For that I'm using the following code in C:

time_t now;
struct tm *mytime = localtime(&now); 
if ( strftime(buffer, sizeof buffer, "%X", mytime) )
{
    printf("time1 = \"%s\"\n", buffer);
}

The problem is that this code is giving some random time. Also, the random time is different everytime. I want the current time of my system.

Copy-pasted from here:

/* localtime example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main ()
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;

  time ( &rawtime );
  timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
  printf ( "Current local time and date: %s", asctime (timeinfo) );

  return 0;
}

(just add "void" to the main() arguments list in order for this to work in C)

Initialize your now variable.

time_t now = time(0); // Get the system time

The localtime function is used to convert the time value in the passed time_t to a struct tm, it doesn't actually retrieve the system time.

zishan

Easy way:

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    time_t mytime = time(NULL);
    char * time_str = ctime(&mytime);
    time_str[strlen(time_str)-1] = '\0';
    printf("Current Time : %s\n", time_str);

    return 0;
}

To extend the answer from @mingos above, I wrote the below function to format my time to a specific format ([dd mm yyyy hh:mm:ss]).

// Store the formatted string of time in the output
void format_time(char *output){
    time_t rawtime;
    struct tm * timeinfo;

    time ( &rawtime );
    timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );

    sprintf(output, "[%d %d %d %d:%d:%d]",timeinfo->tm_mday, timeinfo->tm_mon + 1, timeinfo->tm_year + 1900, timeinfo->tm_hour, timeinfo->tm_min, timeinfo->tm_sec);
}

More information about struct tm can be found here.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<time.h>

void main()
{
    time_t t;
    time(&t);
    printf("\n current time is : %s",ctime(&t));
}

Shauket Sheikh

guys you can use this function to get current local time. if you want gmtime then use gmtime function instead of localtime. cheers

time_t my_time;
struct tm * timeinfo; 
time (&my_time);
timeinfo = localtime (&my_time);
CCLog("year->%d",timeinfo->tm_year+1900);
CCLog("month->%d",timeinfo->tm_mon+1);
CCLog("date->%d",timeinfo->tm_mday);
CCLog("hour->%d",timeinfo->tm_hour);
CCLog("minutes->%d",timeinfo->tm_min);
CCLog("seconds->%d",timeinfo->tm_sec);

user309026

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

void main()
{
    time_t t;
    time(&t);
    clrscr();

    printf("Today's date and time : %s",ctime(&t));
    getch();
}

guys i got a new way get system time. though its lengthy and is full of silly works but in this way you can get system time in integer format.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    FILE *fp;
    char hc1,hc2,mc1,mc2;
    int hi1,hi2,mi1,mi2,hour,minute;
    system("echo %time% >time.txt");
    fp=fopen("time.txt","r");
    if(fp==NULL)
       exit(1) ;
    hc1=fgetc(fp);
    hc2=fgetc(fp);
    fgetc(fp);
    mc1=fgetc(fp);
    mc2=fgetc(fp);
    fclose(fp);
    remove("time.txt");
    hi1=hc1;
    hi2=hc2;
    mi1=mc1;
    mi2=mc2;
    hi1-=48;
    hi2-=48;
    mi1-=48;
    mi2-=48;
    hour=hi1*10+hi2;
    minute=mi1*10+mi2;
    printf("Current time is %d:%d\n",hour,minute);
    return 0;
}

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5141960/get-the-current-time-in-c

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