sco-list: Want YYYYMMDD of yesterday in 'C'

sco-list: Want YYYYMMDD of yesterday in 'C'

Post by Bill Campbel » Fri, 03 Dec 1999 04:00:00




>Folks:

>I have a little 'C' application that I use to print out yesterday in
>'YYYYMMDD' format

>Today it reports yesterday as 19991201 (that's today,in my book)

>any suggestions of what's wrong, or better ways of doing it.

Subtract a day's worth of seconds from the current time before doing
the conversion.  I'm attaching a perl program I call ``yesterday''.

Bill
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