According to ISO 8601, time can be specified in different formats. My program does not know which exact ISO 8601 format will be specified. In this case, how can I convert it to time_t? strptim...

Here's a little test I've written to verify that time does indeed only run forwards in Linux. #include <time.h> #include <sys/time.h> bool timeGoesForwardTest2() { timeval tv1, tv2;...

Is there any method provided by Apple or any technique that can convert a time_t type variable to an NSDate object?

On Visual studio I can force use of 32-bit time_t by declaring _USE_32BIT_TIME_T. Is there a similar equivalent for gcc? or is it always 32-bit or is it always 64-bit?

I'm writing a multi-threaded program that needs to be able to check if a row requires updating and act accordingly. I had problems using the built in date/time functions of MySql and so decided t...

The official Python 2.5 on Windows was build with Visual Studio.Net 2003, which uses 32 bit time_t. So when the year is > 2038, it just gives exceptions. Although this is fixed in Python 2.6 (whic...

I need to get the current time in a "HH:MM:SS"-format into a character array (string) so I can output the result later simply with a printf("%s", timeString); I'm pretty confused on the timeval an...