Current date and time as string

Question

I wrote a function to get a current date and time in format: DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS. It works but let\'s say, its pretty ugly. How can I do exactly the sam

Answer 1

Non C++11 solution: With the header, you could use strftime. Make sure your buffer is large enough, you wouldn't want to overrun it and wreak havoc later.

#include 
#include 

int main ()
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;
  char buffer[80];

  time (&rawtime);
  timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);

  strftime(buffer,sizeof(buffer),"%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S",timeinfo);
  std::string str(buffer);

  std::cout << str;

  return 0;
}