How to get current time and date in C++?
Since C++ 11 you can use std::chrono::system_clock::now()
Example (copied from en.cppreference.com):
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <ctime>
int main()
{
auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
// Some computation here
auto end = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
std::chrono::duration<double> elapsed_seconds = end-start;
std::time_t end_time = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(end);
std::cout << "finished computation at " << std::ctime(&end_time)
<< "elapsed time: " << elapsed_seconds.count() << "s"
<< std::endl;
}
This should print something like this:
finished computation at Mon Oct 2 00:59:08 2017
elapsed time: 1.88232s
C++ shares its date/time functions with C. The tm structure is probably the easiest for a C++ programmer to work with - the following prints today's date:
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::time_t t = std::time(0); // get time now
std::tm* now = std::localtime(&t);
std::cout << (now->tm_year + 1900) << '-'
<< (now->tm_mon + 1) << '-'
<< now->tm_mday
<< "\n";
}