Re: Date and time

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com>]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:19 +0200, Olivier Delhomme wrote:
> I'm looking for a function that will return a date and time
> as a gchar * in a format that is made accordingly to the
> user preferences.

The traditional way of custom formatting dates on Unix has long been
strftime(); the formatting tokens are a bit arcane but nevertheless
quite powerful. See

        $ man strftime

on your system.

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