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From: tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9 time help.
Keywords: os9 time
Message-ID: <465@mwuk.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 09:17:22 GMT
References: <285d1b3f-1b4comp.os.os9@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.
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In article <285d1b3f-1b4comp.os.os9@vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.scw@vpnet.chi.il.us (scott whittle) writes:
-> Help
-> I'm running OS/9 Professional on a 68030 system. I'm trying to get the
-> date and time from the system with this bit of programing.
-> 
-> #include <stdio.h>
-> 
-> main()
-> {
-> int *time,*date,*tick;
-> short *day;
-> 
-> _sysdate(0,&time,&date,&day,&tick);
-> 
-> printf("Time is Time:%d  date:%d  date:%d tick:%d",time,date,day,tick);
-> 
-> }

If you look at the example in the C Compiler Manual for _sysdate(), you
will see that you should have declared the variables without the '*'s:

	int time,date,tick;
	short day;

You were probably getting misled by the synopsis, which describes what
TYPES of parameter _sysdate() is expecting. You were passing it
pointers-to-(pointers which don't yet point anywhere).

Hope this helps.

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