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

I wanted to use the C++11 answer, but I could not because GCC 4.9 does not support std::put_time.

std::put_time implementation status in GCC?

I ended up using some C++11 to slightly improve the non-C++11 answer. For those that can't use GCC 5, but would still like some C++11 in their date/time format:

 std::array buffer;
 buffer.fill(0);
 time_t rawtime;
 time(&rawtime);
 const auto timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);
 strftime(buffer.data(), sizeof(buffer), "%d-%m-%Y %H-%M-%S", timeinfo);
 std::string timeStr(buffer.data());