How to convert st_mtime (which get from stat function) to string or char

Question

I need to convert st_mtime to string format for passing it to java layer, i try to use this example http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/unices/10342/ but compiler produce errors

Answer 1

use strftime() there's an example in the man page something like:

struct tm *tm;
char buf[200];
/* convert time_t to broken-down time representation */
tm = localtime(&t);
/* format time days.month.year hour:minute:seconds */
strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", tm);
printf("%s\n", buf);

Would print the output:

"24.11.2012 17:04:33"