eyc@houxk.UUCP (E.CHEN) (06/04/85)
Here is the C function for getting date and time. I've gotten from BBS (public domain software). Hope that this would be a help to you. Ed. Chen AT&T IS ########################################################################## /* Time and Date support for the C86 compiler. Wes Smith */ /* Passed a pointer to a structured described below, fills in the structure with date and time information from DOS. */ getdati(ptr) struct datetime { char year[5], month[3], day[3], hour[3], minute[3], second[3], msec[3]; } *ptr; { struct regval {int ax, bx, cx, dx, si, di, ds, es;}; struct regval srv, rrv; srv.ax = 0x2A00; sysint(0x21, &srv, &rrv); /* get date */ itoa(rrv.cx, ptr->year); /* cx = year 9999 */ itoa((rrv.dx>>8), ptr->month); /* dh = month 99 */ itoa(((rrv.dx<<8)>>8), ptr->day); /* dh = month 99 */ srv.ax = 0x2C00; sysint(0x21, &srv, &rrv); /* get time */ itoa((rrv.cx>>8), ptr->hour); /* ch = hour 99 */ itoa(((rrv.cx<<8)>>8), ptr->minute); /* cl = minutes 99 */ itoa((rrv.dx>>8), ptr->second); /* dh = seconds 99 */ itoa(((rrv.dx<<8)>>8), ptr->msec); /* dl = 1/100 seconds .99 */ }