(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_DateTimeToTime

Converts a calendar time to an SDL_Time in nanoseconds since the epoch.

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_time.h>

Syntax

int SDL_DateTimeToTime(const SDL_DateTime *dt, SDL_Time *ticks);

Function Parameters

dt the source SDL_DateTime
ticks the resulting SDL_Time

Return Value

Returns 0 on success or -1 on error; call SDL_GetError() for more information.

Remarks

This function ignores the day_of_week member of the SDL_DateTime struct, so it may remain unset.

Version

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryTime