[<<Previous Entry] [^^Up^^] [Next Entry>>] [Menu] [About The Guide]
  DATE

  .  Summary

  date(int <timeval>, str <buffer>);

  .  Description

  The date function writes out a date in <buffer> in the form
  mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, or yy/mm/dd (which is based on the system vari-
  able _date_format). <timeval> is the date, represented as the number
  of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. Time values in this form are returned
  by the curtime and filetime functions, among others.

  .  Return Value

  None.

  .  Example

  str s[16];
  printsc("The current date is ");
  date(curtime(), s);
  prints(s);

See Also: _date_format time curtime filetime tday thour tmin tmonth tsec tyear
This page created by ng2html v1.05, the Norton guide to HTML conversion utility. Written by Dave Pearson