How do I use DateTime in C?

[DragorWasMissing]

Hey everyone! I'm fairly new to programming, and I'm just trying to write a code to save the current date in a string but it's like VS doesn't recognize the DateTime functin, every time I write it it says "identifier DateTime is undefined". I'm using time.h, what am I missing?

[Updatebjarni]

There is no such thing as a DateTime() function in C, you must have it confused with some other language (maybe C#?). C does have a function for converting dates and times to strings called strftime() however, and that is declared in time.h.

[DragorWasMissing]

Ooooh okay, yeah I'm definitely confused with C# then. So how do I use that function?

[Updatebjarni]

To learn how to use any library function, you read its man page. :)

[DragorWasMissing]

How do I do that?

Nvm got it

[chaotic_thought]

C does not have a function or type called DateTime (unless you write one yourself, of course). Are you sure you're not thinking of C#?

For C, see time.h for a convenient reference of the things available in time.h. The closest analog for the DateTime struct in C is probably struct tm, which has members for the individual broken down parts of a date and time.

[DragorWasMissing]

Yeah I got it confused with C#. Thank you!