Re: Taking Time and Date from System in C

Tameem wrote:
> i am a new C programmer. i want to calculate someone's age. my input
> would be his birth date. like : Date: 07
>         Month: 12
>         Year: 1988
> and the program will take the current date from system and calculate
> his age,
> how can i do that in C. please inform me.

One way is to store those values into a struct tm and use mktime() to 
convert to a time_t value, then pass that value and the current time to 
difftime() to get the person's age in seconds. It's up to you to convert 
that to whatever units (years, months, lunar cycles, etc) you want.

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