Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 17:17:26 -0400
From: davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu ("John E. Davis")
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: ctime again


Hi,

    I have had several people request that if I hear of a solution to the
ctime ``bug'' to let them know what it is.  Well, although not a solution,
the code below does return the current time and date in the proper ctime
format.

char *djgpp_current_time (void)
{
   union REGS rg;
   unsigned int year;
   unsigned char month, day, weekday, hour, minute, sec;
   char days[] = "SunMonTueWedThuFriSat";
   char months[] = "JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec";
   static char the_date[26];
   
   rg.h.ah = 0x2A;
   int86(0x21, &rg, &rg);
   year = rg.x.cx & 0xFFFF;
   month = 3 * (rg.h.dh - 1);
   day = rg.h.dl;
   weekday = 3 * rg.h.al;
   
   rg.h.ah = 0x2C;
   int86(0x21, &rg, &rg);
   hour = rg.h.ch;
   minute = rg.h.cl;
   sec = rg.h.dh;
   
   /* we want this form: Thu Apr 14 15:43:39 1994\n */
   sprintf(the_date, "%.3s %.3s%3d %02d:%02d:%02d %d\n",
	   days + weekday, months + month, 
	   day, hour, minute, sec, year);
   return the_date;
}

	   
--John