GetDate

Availability

All terminals

Description

This function fills in the date structure with the current date stored in the terminal's real-time clock.

Syntax

void GetDate( struct date *datep );

Arguments

struct date **datep*

The date structure is defined as follows:

struct date
{
    unsigned int da_year;   // current year, 4 digits
    unsigned char da_day;   // day of the month
    unsigned char da_mon;   // month; 1 = January
};

Returns

The function fills in the structure, but has no return value.

Remarks

The date can be set with the SetDate() function.

Example

// GetDate() / GetTime() example
#include <stdio.h>
#include "lib.h"

void main( void )
{
    struct date d;
    struct time t;

    for(;;)
    {
        GetDate( &d );
        GetTime( &t );
        printf("\n%02d:%02d:%02d", t.ti_hour, t.ti_min, t.ti_sec);
        printf(" %02d/%02d/%04d", d.da_day, d.da_mon, d.da_year);
        Delay( 50 );
    }
}