how to use the machine date as an input! plz help!

[momotaro]

i m looking to have the date of the computer used as an input in a program can u help?
thx!!

[Banfa]

call the time(...) function to the the timein seconds since 1/1/1970

There are other functions in the standard library (gmtime?) to convert this to year, month, day, hour minute and seconds.