String representation of time_t?

Question

time_t seconds;
time(&seconds);

cout << seconds << endl;

This gives me a timestamp. How can I get that epoch date into a string?<

Answer 1

The C++ way is to use stringstream.

The C way is to use snprintf() to format the number:

 char buf[16];
 snprintf(buf, 16, "%lu", time(NULL));