Converting epoch time to “real” date/time

Question

What I want to do is convert an epoch time (seconds since midnight 1/1/1970) to \"real\" time (m/d/y h:m:s)

So far, I have the following algorithm, which to me feels

Answer 1

An easy way (though different than the format you wanted):

std::time_t result = std::time(nullptr);
std::cout << std::asctime(std::localtime(&result));

Output: Wed Sep 21 10:27:52 2011

Notice that the returned result will be automatically concatenated with "\n".. you can remove it using:

std::string::size_type i = res.find("\n");
if (i != std::string::npos)
    res.erase(i, res.length());

Taken from: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/c/time