can someone explain in simple terms how to actually use the following <ctime> functions? I have read thru a few C++ reference websites but the explainations given are very vague and complex.
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No he doesn't. And he doesn't want iostream.h either. What version of Dev-C are you using? I don't remember if the current stable version includes a standards compliant compiler. Convert tm structure to timet (function ) time Get current time (function ) Conversion asctime Convert tm structure to string (function ) ctime Convert timet value to string (function ) gmtime Convert timet to tm as UTC time (function ) localtime Convert timet to tm as local time (function ) strftime Format time as string (function ) Macro. This structure holds the date and time in the form of a C structure. Most of the time related functions makes use of tm structure. Let's take some examples on date and time in C for complete understanding on C date and time. C Date and Time Example. This C program simply prints the local and UTC date and time on the screen. Click here for Dev-C 5 FAQ. Last update:. When I compile my dos program and execute it, Dev-C minimizes and then restore in a second but nothing appears? Sep 01, 2009 First of all, do not use an 'empty time delay loop' as that will be extremely system dependent and unreliable. Also, it would help to know what OS you are developing for and what errors you are receiving when your try to use Sleep or delay. Strftime is a function in C which is used to format date and time. It comes under the header file time.h, which also contains a structure named struct tm which is used to hold the time and date. The syntax of strftime is as shown below.
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struct tm: is just a structure that can be use like any other structure. The localtime() function takes a time_t object and returns a pointer to a struct tm.
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10 rows The time.h header defines four variable types, two macro and various functions for manipulating date and time. Library Variables. Following are the variable types defined in the header time.h −.
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mktime: does just the opposite of localtime(). It takes a struct tm object and converts it to time_t. In addition it may also normalize the struct tm object. Lets say you want to get a struct tm and time_t for some future date, say one month from now. To do that, you first call localtime() as shown above, add 30 days to the tm_mon structure member, then call mktime() to normalize the structure members. mktime() will take care of insuring the structure contains the correct month, day and year (such as for month and year roll-overs).
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difftime: simply returns the difference between two time_t objects. '>See example program here.