Print Date and Time In Visual Studio C++ build?

Question

How would I print the date and time for the purposes of the build. Ie: When the console for my application starts up I want to do this:

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Answer 1

One way of doing this would be using the built-in __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros. From MSDN (for VS 2005):

__DATE__: The compilation date of the current source file. The date is a string literal of the form Mmm dd yyyy. The month name Mmm is the same as for dates generated by the library function asctime declared in TIME.H.

__TIME__: The most recent compilation time of the current source file. The time is a string literal of the form hh:mm:ss.