This chapter describes the date/time functions available with DEC C for OpenVMS Systems. For more detailed information on each function, see the Reference Section.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| asctime | Converts a broken-down time from localtime into a 26-character string. |
| ctime | Converts a time, in seconds, since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970 to an ASCII string of the form generated by the asctime function. |
| ftime | Returns the elapsed time since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970 in the structure pointed to by its argument. |
| getclock | Gets the current value of the system- wide clock. |
| gettimeofday | Gets the date and time. |
| gmtime | Converts time units to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). |
| localtime | Converts a time (expressed as the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970) into hours, minutes, seconds, and so on. |
| mktime | Converts a local time structure to a calendar time value. |
| time | Returns the time elapsed since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970, in seconds. |
| tzset | Sets and accesses time-zone conversion. |
Also, the time-related information returned by fstat and stat uses the new date/time model described in the next section.