Re: Z timestamp fields

BTW, perhaps you don't need to look into difftime... simple memcmp between
two 26 byte strings may suffice.

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[mailto:c400-l-bounces+ebudimlic=centerfieldtechnology.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Elvis Budimlic
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:35 PM
To: 'C programming iSeries / AS400'
Subject: Re: [C400-L] Z timestamp fields

Look into localtime, difftime and strftime functions.  These should be
enough to do anything you need.  Here's simple function to get you started:

char * timeToTimestamp(time_t  currtime, char * timestamp)
{
   struct tm *  convTime;

   convTime = localtime(&currtime);
   strftime(timestamp, 26,
            "%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S.000000",
            convTime);
   return(timestamp);
}

-----Original Message-----
Subject: [C400-L] Z timestamp fields

How can I work with Z timestamp fields in C? They seem to turn into
26-byte character arrays in C. I don't know how to populate them with
the current timestamp or determine the differences between them, though.
Thanks.