time_t to simple date string conversion

[Kai Meyer]

On 04/05/2011 03:40 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:24:11 -0400, Kai Meyer <kai at unixlords.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm reading documentation on std.datetime, and it appears there are
>> added features that I don't have in 2.51 (Linux). Did features like
>> 'SysTime' get added after 2.51?
>>
>> Does anybody have a one-liner to convert a time_t to a date string
>> that should work for me?
>
> auto t = time();
> auto systime = SystemTime(unixTimeToStdTime(t)); // to system time
>
> from there, you have many options to create the right string. You can
> start with just writing it (via toString):
>
> writeln(systime);
>
> There's also:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_datetime.html#toSimpleString
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_datetime.html#toISOString
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_datetime.html#toISOExtendedString
>
>
> and doing it directly:
>
> writefln("%s/%s/%s", t.month, t.day, t.year);
>
> Don't see a way to print the month in text format, but maybe I'm
> overlooking it.
>
> -Steve

Ok, that works. Thanks :)