>I haven't done much work with dlls, but I see one problem. From your code it appears that rtntime will be more than one character(string). In C++ creating a char* is like creating an array. So, when you do "return(*rntime)" you will only return the first character. For example,
>
>rtntime = "hello";
>return(*rtntime); This will return "h"
>
>return(*(rtntime + 1)); This will return "e"
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>If you are only returning one character then disregard. This sould not cause a memory error unless rtntime is null. You might want to test for null before you return the value.
>
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>Hope this helps!
>
>James Naftel
>
>>
>> char ConvertTime(void)
>> {
>> struct tm *newtime;
>> time_t aclock;
>> char* rtntime;
>>
>> aclock=8067157205;
>>
>> newtime = localtime(&aclock);
>>
>> rtntime = asctime(newtime);
>>
>> return(*rtntime);
>>
>> }

Hi James:

What I am trying to do is return the whole string.

localtime() converts the Universal Coordinated Time (aclock) and places the result in a structure. the pointer to that structure is assigned to newtime.

asctime() converts the elements in the structure to a character string ie: "Thursday August 14, 1997 10:29 am", and assigns the pointer to this string to rtntime.

How do I then return the whole string?

Ed