Strftime Function

It is used for formatting time and date into a string .

It works a little as sprintf() .

It returns the number of characters stored in the string pointed to by the pointer (str) or zero if an error occurs.

The printing alphabet after "%" may contain any alphabet . You may try out different combinations below .

Syntax:

 size_t strftime(char *str, size_t maxsize, const char *fmt, const struct tm *time)

Example:


#include <time.h>

  #include <stdio.h>



  int main()

  {

    struct tm *xyz;

    time_t l;

    char str[90];

    l = time(NULL);

    xyz = localtime(&l);

    strftime(str, 100, "It is now %I %p.", xyz);

    printf(str);

    return 0;

  }

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