Description

This shows how to use the getdate function to retrieve the system date .

Code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <bios.h>

int main(void)
{
struct date DATE;

clrscr();
getdate(&DATE);
printf("The year is : %d\n",DATE.da_year);
printf("The month is : %d\n",DATE.da_month);
printf("The day is : %d\n",DATE.da_day);

return 0;

}

Information

tested using Turbo C and Windows 98

Download

getdate.txt