get current time and convert it to string

[Abby (J.P.)]

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> Abby (J.P.) wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I want to get current time and put it into a string, I tried this :
>>
>>
>> int* the_time;
>> std.c.time.time(the_time);
>>
>> char* str_time_ptr;
>> str_time_ptr = std.c.time.ctime(the_time);
>>
>> char[] anwser = "Current time is: " ~ *str_time_ptr;
>>
> 
> import std.date;
> char[] answer = "Current time is: " ~
>                  std.date.toTimeString(std.date.getUTCtime());
> 
> Use the Date struct if you want more control over the format.
> 
>>
>> But it does only concatenate the first letter of the array return by 
>> ctime. I looked for C examples, but they all use printf:
>> time_t rawtime;
>> time ( &rawtime );
>> printf ( "Current date and time are: %s", ctime (&rawtime) );
>>
> 
> In D you won't be using zero-terminated strings except for interfacing 
> with C functions.  If you dereference a char pointer (like 
> *str_time_ptr), you get a char. Just like a you would in C.  If you call 
> a C function that returns a pointer to a zero-terminated string, you can 
> convert it into a D string like this:
> 
> char[] str_timeto = std.string.toString(str_time_ptr);
> 
> and the other way around:
> 
> char* str_timeto_ptr = std.string.toStringz(str_time);
Thanks, it works fine.
By the way, is there a way to set the time shifting used for the function
std.date.UTCtoLocalTime(long t); ?
It does automatically put me at GMT+4, and that's not valid.

Thanks again for your anwsers.