Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 09:21:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 5 May 2001, Rafal Maj wrote:

> Is there some function that will represent time in seconds ?

Yes, it's called `time', and you already found it.

> If I remember
> correct, ther was some functions return date as seconds after 1972.??.?? or
> something like that.

`time' returns the amount of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT on Jan 1,
1970.

> I have found function time()... but I have problems with it:
>   printf("Time is %d\n", time(0));
> This won't compile in C++ and will in C. Why ? How to compile in C++ ?

What were the compiler error messages?

Did you include <time.h>?

Also note that `time' returns a time_t object, so C++ might object to
printing it with a %d.  Try %u instead.