Obtaining the Current Time and Date in a C++ Program

The function time() returns a pointer to a long integer containing the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970.

The function ctime() will convert that number to a string containing the current date and time.

Example:

//  check the date and time

#include <time.h>
#include <iostream.h>

main()
{

        long tyme, *t;

        t = &tyme;

        time(t);

        cout << (char*) ctime(t) << endl;

}


The program will produce output similar to the following:

	Wed Sep 12 14:12:57 2001