Arithmetics on calendar dates in C or C++ (add N days to given date)

Question

I have been given a date, Which I am taking as an input like (day, month, year): 12, 03, 87.

Now I need to find out the date after n days.<

Answer 1

It might be easier to do the math using seconds since the epoch instead of manipulating the date fields directly.

For example, this program prints the date 7 days from now:

#include 
#include 

main()
{
    time_t t;
    struct tm *tmp;

    time(&t);

    /* add a week to today */
    t += 7 * 24 * 60 * 60;

    tmp = localtime(&t);
    printf("%02d/%02d/%02d\n", tmp->tm_mon+1, tmp->tm_mday,
        tmp->tm_year % 100);
}