Date & Time In One Variable

[compman9902]

Hello, thank you for looking at this post.
I need help with the date and time in a program. All I need to do is put the date and time into one variable and that would solve everything. When I say date and time, I mean something like "10/12/08,16:52:08". Thanks. Also, the variable it has to be put in is a string variable.
Here are my specs.:

Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2
Windows XP Service Pack 2

Thanks again.

[sicarie]

Hello, thank you for looking at this post.
I need help with the date and time in a program. All I need to do is put the date and time into one variable and that would solve everything. When I say date and time, I mean something like "10/12/08,16:52:08". Thanks. Also, the variable it has to be put in is a string variable.
Here are my specs.:

Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2
Windows XP Service Pack 2

Thanks again.

I was going to recommend creating your own 'Date' class where you could overload all the methods you wanted, but I can't imagine C++ not having something like that already built for it, so I did a Google search of "c++ date". That should get you started!

[weaknessforcats]

Use the Win32 struct SYSTEMTIME in MSDN.

check this.

[compman9902]

Here is the thing, for both of these great posts...
I am a complete and utter nooby.
I really don't have any experience with structs and barley any with functions, so code examples would really be a great way to show me. Heck, even a code example of how to get the struct SYSTEMTIME into a variable in the format of "10/12/08,16:52:08" for October 12th, 2008 at 4:52 and 8 seconds.
Thanks again.

[weaknessforcats]

Here is the thing, for both of these great posts...
I am a complete and utter nooby.
I really don't have any experience with structs and barley any with functions, so code examples would really be a great way to show me. Heck, even a code example of how to get the struct SYSTEMTIME into a variable in the format of "10/12/08,16:52:08" for October 12th, 2008 at 4:52 and 8 seconds.
Thanks again.

I did a Google on SYSTEMTIME and got 112,000 hits. The code samples you want are in MSDN and that is public on the Inrernet.

[compman9902]

I did a Google on SYSTEMTIME and got 112,000 hits. The code samples you want are in MSDN and that is public on the Inrernet.

Alright, I searched and came up with the following code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
time_t now=time(NULL);
struct tm *tm=localtime(&now);
printf("[(%d",tm->tm_mon + 1);
printf("/%d",tm->tm_mday);
printf("/%d)",tm->tm_year + 1900);
printf(",%d",tm->tm_hour + 1);
printf(":%d",tm->tm_min);
printf(":%d]\n",tm->tm_sec);
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

I does great for just displaying the time and date in the format I want, but I need help putting what it shows into a string variable. Thanks.

[JosAH]

Alright, I searched and came up with the following code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
time_t now=time(NULL);
struct tm *tm=localtime(&now);
printf("[(%d",tm->tm_mon + 1);
printf("/%d",tm->tm_mday);
printf("/%d)",tm->tm_year + 1900);
printf(",%d",tm->tm_hour + 1);
printf(":%d",tm->tm_min);
printf(":%d]\n",tm->tm_sec);
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

I does great for just displaying the time and date in the format I want, but I need help putting what it shows into a string variable. Thanks.

There are many time/date related functions available; I guess you want the
asctime function; it converts a struct tm to a string. Read the API docs here.

kind regards,

Jos

[compman9902]

There are many time/date related functions available; I guess you want the
asctime function; it converts a struct tm to a string. Read the API docs here.

kind regards,

Jos

Actually, I have just found another way, thank you for all of your kind help.