How to get current time and date in C++?

Question

Is there a cross-platform way to get the current date and time in C++?

Answer 1

You can also directly use ctime():

#include 
#include 

int main ()
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;

  time ( &rawtime );
  printf ( "Current local time and date: %s", ctime (&rawtime) );

  return 0;
}