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the output doesn't fit in maxsize characters, in that case 0 is returned.
Again, the % character indicates a format specifier, so to print a % sign, you must use %%. The following format specifiers are supported:
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name
%A locale's full weekday name
%b locale's abbreviated month name
%B locale's full month name
%c locale's appropriate date and time representation
%d day of the month as a decimal number [01..31]
%H hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00..23]
%I hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01..12]
%j day of the year as a decimal number [001..366]
%m month as a decimal number [01..12]
%M minute as a decimal number [00..59]
%p locale's equivalent of AM/PM
%S second as a decimal number [00..60]
%U week number of the year (the first Sunday as the first day
of week 1) as a decimal number [00..53]
%w weekday (where Sunday is 0) as a decimal number [0..6]
%W week number of the year (the first Monday as the first day
of week 1) as a decimal number [00..53]
%x locale's appropriate date representation
%X locale's appropriate time representation
%y last 2 digits of the year as a decimal number [00..99]
%Y whole year as a decimal number (e.g. 1998)
%Z timezone name or abbreviation, or no characters if the
timezone can't be determined
time_t time(time_t *timer);
Returns the current calendar time as an encoded time_t value. If timer is not NULL, the value will be stored in the time_t pointed to by timer as well.17. Epilogue
17.1. Credits
Thanks to the following people for providing useful suggestions, corrections, additions: (in alphabetical order by surname)
Nick Austin
Aaron Crane
Dann Corbit
Lawrence Kirby
Bernd Luevelsmeyer
Tom Nolette
Sunil Rao
Robin Sheppard
Jan Schuhr
David Tait
George White
17.2. Other interesting C-related online material
The comp.lang.c answers to frequently asked questions:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
Bob Stout's Snippets collection:
http://www.snippets.org/
Dinkumware's C reference:
http://www.dinkumware.com/refxc.html
Overview of reserved identifiers:
http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/c-predef.htm
Links to other C resources:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/
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