Date

[Paul Selibas]

Greetings, i know to get all the dates/times one would use the header ctime
or time.h.
Can some one then direct me in the right direction to actually get the date
or anything.

Many thanks!

[John Harrison]

Re: Date


"Paul Selibas" <nospam@mweb.co .za> wrote in message
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> Greetings, i know to get all the dates/times one would use the header[/color]
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> or time.h.
> Can some one then direct me in the right direction to actually get the[/color]
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> or anything.
>
> Many thanks!
>[/color]

Time functions are tricky to handle. Something like this should work
(untested)

#include <time.h>

tm time = *localtime(time (0));
cout << "The date is " << time.tm_mday << '/' << time.tm_mon + 1 << '/' <<
time.tm_year + 1900;

This prints the date British style (i.e. day / month / year).

john

[John Harrison]

Re: Date

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> Time functions are tricky to handle. Something like this should work
> (untested)
>
> #include <time.h>
>
> tm time = *localtime(time (0));
> cout << "The date is " << time.tm_mday << '/' << time.tm_mon + 1 << '/' <<
> time.tm_year + 1900;
>
> This prints the date British style (i.e. day / month / year).
>
> john[/color]

Apologies, I said they were tricky. Try this

time_t t = time(0);
tm time = *localtime(&t);
cout << "The date is " << time.tm_mday << '/' << time.tm_mon + 1 << '/' <<
time.tm_year + 1900;

john