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10 years, 6 months ago.

Cannot get time-example by Simon Ford to work

I directly imported and the value for "seconds since January 1, 1970" printed is always -1.

I have the standard mbed NXP LPC1768 and am using standard mbed development system.

This is the code:

time-example

#include "mbed.h"

int main() {
    while(1) {
        time_t seconds = time(NULL);
        printf("Seconds since January 1, 1970: %d\n", seconds);
        wait(1);
    }
}

1 Answer

Wim Huiskamp
10 years, 6 months ago.

According to the example and previous answers you need to insert a call to set_time to initialize and start the clock.

See http://mbed.org/forum/mbed/topic/344/

Accepted Answer