How do you print a C++11 time_point?

Question

I\'ve created a time point, but I have been struggling to print it to the terminal.

#include 
#include 

int main(){

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Answer 1

Updated answer for an old question:

For a std::chrono::time_point there is now a 3rd party libraries that give you much better control. For time_points based on other clocks, there is still no better solution than to just get the internal representation and print it out.

But for system_clock, using this library, this is as easy as:

#include "date.h"
#include 

int
main()
{
    using namespace date;
    using namespace std::chrono;
    std::cout << system_clock::now() << " UTC\n";
}

which just output for me:

2016-07-19 03:21:01.910626 UTC

which is the current UTC date and time to microsecond precision. If on your platform system_clock::time_point has nanosecond precision, it will print out nanosecond precision for you.