UST, thanks for your interest in my problem.
I am real new to c and c++ and arduino so I won't be much help.
I have been using Time.h and time.h for some time and they seem to work some time and then on the next build it will crash and I can't get it to work anymore. I don't know what the variable it that causes the issue.
I have been trying for weeks to simply get a datetime string YYYYMMDD:HHmmSS and am still struggling with this simple request. Funny no one else seems to need this functionality using Arduino and Edison.
Let me know if I can help further.