Building a date string in c

c

Solution

I would consider using ctime and/or strftime. It might get you what you want without messing too much with strings and time fields.

With strftime:

char text[100];
time_t now = time(NULL);
struct tm *t = localtime(&now);


strftime(text, sizeof(text)-1, "%d %m %Y %H:%M", t);
printf("Current Date: %s", text);

Problem

I am currently working on a c project and I am trying to get the date from the system and build that into a string. I am very new to c so I'm currently learning as I go along but I cannot get this to work. Below is the code that I have ``` time_t now = time(NULL); struct tm *t = localtime(&now); char currentDate[13]; char day[3]; char month[3]; char year[5]; char hour[3]; char min[3]; sprintf(day, "%02d", t->tm_mday, sizeof(day)); sprintf(month, "%02d", t->tm_mon+1, sizeof(month)); sprintf(year, "%04d", t->tm_year + 1900, sizeof(year)); sprintf(hour, "%02d", t->tm_hour, sizeof(hour)); sprintf(min, "%02d", t->tm_min, sizeof(min)); strcat(currentDate, day); strcat(currentDate, month); strcat(currentDate, year); strcat(currentDate, hour); strcat(currentDate, min); printf("Current Date: %s", currentDate); ``` When it does the printf it just prints a load of rubbish e.g. Current Date: ÃÃx·Z¤ÿ·øÃéôÃÿ·^XÃé<95>úþ·^F^FÃ^P^_ What am I doing wrong.

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