Thread: formatting a date

I am using c++ and is there an method i can use to format a date into the following form 06/07/02 which is the month, day and year??

Well what is the information as you get it?

Are you using a Date class or just a string. If either, how is the information formatted?

If its a class, look into the (global) operator<< that is associated with it.

If its a string, look into string manipulation.

i would like to use <ctime> becuase i need the date from the computer is this even possible??

Here's one way.

Code:

   time_t time_now;
   char s[9];

   time_now = time(NULL);
   strftime(s,sizeof(s),"%m/%d/%y",localtime(&time_now));
   cout << s << endl;

Thanks a lot
it works perfectly