Read Files?

[Reg0r1us]

I am creating a program that calculates day, time, and month, year, as well as minutes using C++. The Seconds are supposed to be pulled out of a text file. For some Reason the Seconds aren't Being Recorded from the text File! I'm doing this as a bit of practice after finishing chapters 1-10 in Accelerated C++ 2000.

Here is the Struct Header:

#ifndef GUARD_TIME
#define GUARD_TIME
struct Time
{
	double minutes_fin;
	double hours_fin;
	double days_fin;
	double weeks_fin;
	double months_fin;
	double years_fin;
};
#endif 

Here is the File Section of the code...

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include "Time.h"
using namespace std;
long double seconds;
Time time;

long double print (long double seconds)
{
	cout << endl;
	cout << "According to your file: " << seconds << " Seconds is equal to: "
		 << time.minutes_fin << " Minutes." << endl;
	cout << "And is also equal to: " << time.hours_fin << " Hours or "
		 << time.days_fin << " Days!" << endl;
	cout << "And also equal to: " << time.weeks_fin << " Weeks as well! Even "
		 << time.months_fin << " Months! Finally " << time.years_fin << 
		 " Years!";
	return seconds;
}

long double read_file (long double seconds)
{
	fstream txt_file;
	txt_file.open("seconds.txt");
	if (txt_file.is_open())
	{
		while(!txt_file.eof())
		{
          txt_file >> seconds;
           
        }
	}
	else
	{
		cout << "File Not Found";
		cin.ignore();
		return 1;
	}
	txt_file.close();
	return seconds;
}

long double sec_to_minutes (long double seconds)
{
 time.minutes_fin = seconds / 60;
 return time.minutes_fin;
}

void sec_to_hours ()
{
 time.hours_fin = time.minutes_fin / 60;
}

void sec_to_days ()
{
 time.days_fin = time.hours_fin / 24;
}

void sec_to_weeks ()
{
 time.weeks_fin = time.days_fin / 7;
}

long double sec_to_months (long double seconds)
{
time.months_fin = seconds / 2629743.83;
return time.months_fin;
}

void sec_to_years ()
{
	time.years_fin = time.days_fin / 365.25;
	
}

int main ()
{
	read_file(seconds);
	sec_to_minutes (seconds);
	sec_to_hours ();
	sec_to_days ();
	sec_to_weeks ();
	sec_to_months (seconds);
	sec_to_years ();
	print (seconds);
	cin.ignore();
	return 0;
}

Any answers would be highly appreciated! (Also what is an SO? (I assume something with OS's?))

[Moschops]

long double read_file(seconds);

What exactly is that doing? Likewise the following lines.

[Reg0r1us]

It calls its corresponding function and gives the parameter seconds.

[Reg0r1us]

I'm an idiot thanks @ moschops
Fixed everything but file being read
Still receiving 0 for my seconds variable....

[coder777]

On line 29 you permanently keep overwriting seconds.

The stream determines an error (such as eof) after the read operation is done. In case of an error the provided value is left empty/0. So the check for eof on line 27 comes too late. The damage is done i.e. seconds is already 0.