Just by looking the code one will have hard time knowing that a slice of ctime() from characters 11 to 16 is HH:MM time format. Use of strftime() tells exactly what one can expect without additional comments. Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> --- term-utils/write.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/term-utils/write.c b/term-utils/write.c index 403d4a7..b10c129 100644 --- a/term-utils/write.c +++ b/term-utils/write.c @@ -239,9 +239,10 @@ static void write_line(char *s) */ static void do_write(const struct write_control *ctl) { - char *login, *pwuid, *time_stamp; + char *login, *pwuid, time_stamp[6]; struct passwd *pwd; time_t now; + struct tm *tm; char path[PATH_MAX], *host, line[512]; struct sigaction sigact; @@ -265,21 +266,21 @@ static void do_write(const struct write_control *ctl) sigaction(SIGINT, &sigact, NULL); sigaction(SIGHUP, &sigact, NULL); - /* print greeting */ host = xgethostname(); if (!host) host = xstrdup("???"); - now = time((time_t *) NULL); - time_stamp = ctime(&now); - time_stamp[16] = '\0'; - printf("\r\n\007\007\007"); + now = time((time_t *)NULL); + tm = localtime(&now); + strftime(time_stamp, sizeof(time_stamp), "%H:%M", tm); + /* print greeting */ + printf("\r\n\a\a\a"); if (strcmp(login, pwuid)) printf(_("Message from %s@%s (as %s) on %s at %s ..."), - login, host, pwuid, ctl->src_tty, time_stamp + 11); + login, host, pwuid, ctl->src_tty, time_stamp); else printf(_("Message from %s@%s on %s at %s ..."), - login, host, ctl->src_tty, time_stamp + 11); + login, host, ctl->src_tty, time_stamp); free(host); printf("\r\n"); -- 2.8.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html