Thread: help me ... class time end

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/

You could check the time every iteration, although that seems kind of wasetful to be trying to break a while loop that way.

You can't just do it that way. The problem with just specifying 2:00 is that you need to tell it 2:00 on which day.

Create a struct tm object and set the members to the exact time you want to stop at. When you have it set right, pass it to mktime(), and you'll get a time_t variable. Compare that to what you get from time() every iteration with the difftime() function, and you'll get the
difference in seconds between the two times.

It would seem a better way of doing this would be to create a separate thread that just sleeps until a given time and then sets a boolean flag that the other thread can check on whether to quit or not. This might be beyond the scope of your assignment, however.

Edit: Here's the FAQ link from this site about how to deal with dates and time: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392