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

std::ctime

Why was ctime only mentioned in the comments so far?

#include 
#include 
 
int main()
{
    std::time_t result = std::time(nullptr);
    std::cout << std::ctime(&result);
}

Output

Tue Dec 27 17:21:29 2011