getDate function

[soaring747]

Hello. I am in need of a method to return the month and day of the month (as a birthday reminder for a friend...thought it'd be a nice little popup). I intend on using this as a comparison,

if ( getdate("%m") == "05" && getdate("%d") == "08" )
...birthday message code...

at least, it looked this easy from from the time.h library. Can someone please guide me as to the correct procedure?

And while I'm here, I may as well ask: what method should I use to have the program add itself to autostart on startup? Want it to be a nice birthday surprise. :)

[DeMan]

if ( getdate("%m") == "05" && getdate("%d") == "08" )
...birthday message code...

at least, it looked this easy from from the time.h library. Can someone please guide me as to the correct procedure?

I think you'll find that getDate takes as argument a value of seconds since sometime (probably 01/01/1976 or something) and returns a structure containing elements representing month year etc. (you can use time() to get this value for right now, and pass that into getDate());

as for setting something to run automatically....Can't help you there I'm afraid....

[soaring747]

I think you'll find that getDate takes as argument a value of seconds since sometime (probably 01/01/1976 or something) and returns a structure containing elements representing month year etc. (you can use time() to get this value for right now, and pass that into getDate());

as for setting something to run automatically....Can't help you there I'm afraid....

so something like getDate(time(pointer_to_structure)) ?

(as you can see, I'm overtly simple and like to do things the easy way)

if not then surely..

(declare pointer)

int date = time(pointer_to_structure);

getDate(date);

[DeMan]

Sorry, I'm not sure the name of the exact structure, so I'll call it dateStruct here (lookup "date time c" or similar (in google or equiv) for better explanation)....

dateStruct myDate = getDate(time());

then myDate has fields that relate to month, day, year etc whcih you can compare to ....

(you may need to include some other libraries, but your search should clarify this)

[soaring747]

Sorry, I'm not sure the name of the exact structure, so I'll call it dateStruct here (lookup "date time c" or similar (in google or equiv) for better explanation)....

dateStruct myDate = getDate(time());

then myDate has fields that relate to month, day, year etc whcih you can compare to ....

(you may need to include some other libraries, but your search should clarify this)

I see..that helps tremendously. Otherwise I might've got the whole thing wrong again. Thank you for your help.

[soaring747]

....discovered the "_strdate()"

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;

int main(){
char date[9];
_strdate(date);
if ( date == "05/08/07" ){
cout << "Happy Birthday!";
}
cin.get();
}

[DeMan]

Good Stuff!!