Retrieve 1st 3 characters from string

Hello

Thanks Paul.
Thanks to your tip, I've found some documentation here http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=print;num=1231650517

strncpy( yearString, timeString, 4); // copy the first four characters of timeString into the year string
year = atoi(yearString); // convert ASCII year string to integer and store in the year integer variable

Thanks once again by your greatful help
Best regards
Pedro Ferrer