8.5 gmtime—convert time to UTC traditional form

Synopsis

     #include <time.h>
     struct tm *gmtime(const time_t *clock);
     struct tm *gmtime_r(const time_t *clock, struct tm *res);
     

Description
gmtime takes the time at clock representing the number of elapsed seconds since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Universal Coordinated Time (UTC, also known in some countries as GMT, Greenwich Mean time) and converts it to a struct tm representation.

gmtime constructs the traditional time representation in static storage; each call to gmtime or localtime will overwrite the information generated by previous calls to either function.

Returns
A pointer to the traditional time representation (struct tm).

Portability
ANSI C requires gmtime.

gmtime requires no supporting OS subroutines.