Need Quick Help For Finding A Function That Finds Your Current Time On Your Computer

[cplusplusnoob]

Hey guys! Just for fun, and experience, I'm trying too make a nifty, but small C++ program, which in this case, I want the program to check the Computer's clock time and reply by what time it reads ( for ex: if it reads the clock to be after noon but before evening time, sometime before 6pm, it will reply with a cout statement saying something such as "Good afternoon!"..)

I already have the "if" statements prepared and ect... but I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO USE THE <time.h> HEADER FILE!!!! lol. I've tried googling and watching vids, but I haven't found anything that suits my personal needs. Can any one tell me a function in the <time.h> header file, or from ANY header file, that you think may work with what I'm aiming for. And I'm guessing if their is such a function, it would only convert the time into seconds? Which I guess would work! =)

[manasij7479]

You tried googling and missed the first result ?
ctime (time.h) - C++ Reference

[DaveH]

From :localtime - C++ Reference

    /* localtime example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main ()
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;

  time ( &rawtime );
  timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
  printf ( "Current local time and date: %s", asctime (timeinfo) );
  
  return 0;
}

[cplusplusnoob]

You tried googling and missed the first result ?
ctime (time.h) - C++ Reference

No, ofcourse I saw that. Actually that was the tutorial with the least amount of help. It provided the functions, but it doesn't explain how to use them. But I do appreciate your help =)

[cplusplusnoob]

From :localtime - C++ Reference

    /* localtime example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main ()
{
  time_t rawtime;
  struct tm * timeinfo;

  time ( &rawtime );
  timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
  printf ( "Current local time and date: %s", asctime (timeinfo) );
  
  return 0;
}

@DaveH Thank you so much for providing me with an example program, I greatly appreciate you taking your time to do so! Can you explain to me what the many functions do, and how they work together? Such as this code fragment from the program above:
// time ( &rawtime ); //

[Salem]

You've got a list of function names and a link to the manual pages.
Now go do some reading.

[cplusplusnoob]

Thanks guys, appreciate all the help!