gmtime

Syntax

#include <time.h> struct tm *gmtime(const time_t *tod);

Description

Converts the time represented by tod into a structure.

The return structure has this format:

struct tm { int tm_sec; /* seconds after the minute [0-60] */ int tm_min; /* minutes after the hour [0-59] */ int tm_hour; /* hours since midnight [0-23] */ int tm_mday; /* day of the month [1-31] */ int tm_mon; /* months since January [0-11] */ int tm_year; /* years since 1900 */ int tm_wday; /* days since Sunday [0-6] */ int tm_yday; /* days since January 1 [0-365] */ int tm_isdst; /* Daylight Savings Time flag */ long tm_gmtoff; /* offset from GMT in seconds */ char * tm_zone; /* timezone abbreviation */ };

Return Value

A pointer to a static structure which is overwritten with each call.

Portability

ANSI/ISO C	C89; C99
POSIX	1003.2-1992; 1003.1-2001

Example

time_t x; struct tm *t; time(&x); t = gmtime(&x);