OT: Hex to BCD conversion for programs

Chuck: This worked like a champ! Sometimes I forget how to do 1st Grade math. Thanks a lot. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ Web site: http://www.altair32.com/ /***************************************************/ -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:59 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: OT: Hex to BCD conversion for programs Rich, It sounds as if your programming language is "C". :) sprintf() is probably fine for what you want to do, but using the Windows API to get the time is not terribly portable. How about using some of the calls in time.h? Say a call to time(), followed by a call to localtime()? At least that way, your time will be broken out into structure elements holding month, day, year, hours, minutes, seconds and will be good on just about any platform. You can create your BCD values by /10 and %10 operations for the upper and lower digits respectively. Cheers, Chuck On 6/29/2006 at 10:51 PM Richard A. Cini wrote: and value. returning