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Hello programmers, can anyone help me on this? I want to be able to get the current system date add so many days to it or subtract; which will automatically calculate the new date (and also for leap years if possible).
e.g system date = 02/04/2002 + 29 (days)
new system date should read 01/05/2002. I've tried using time.h and them annoying structures, but none of them worked. Any help would be very greatful.
os-win98/builder5
I assume you are using Windows. Use the GetSystemTime and SetSystemTime functions for getting and setting the time. If you don't know how to handle them, look it up in your helpfile or in www.msdn.microsoft.com.
I don't actually want to reset the system time on a computer, I just need to get the date, add or subtract so many days from the date; but it needs to calculate the correct month and days accordingly, perhaps year as well depending on the no of days being added or subtracted.
this is for console programming....
Looked at the website, didn't understand it. Can't someone show me an example? It can't be that hard to add so many days to a date, and recalulate the new month etc.
Why cant people try things on their own? Instead of insisting on us writing code for them. This really smells like homework so ill give you a few suggestions and no code. First using the time_t and calling time(time_t*) will return the number of seconds past since Jan. 1 1970. Well to convert this to the date you just need to get the number of seconds in a year and divide the value returned by time and then you know how many years have passed since then. Or you could use the value returned by time and pass it to ctime and that will return a string in the format: Fri Jan 28 00:00:00 2000. You can extract the date using substrings if you are using strings, then you will have to write your own functions to add days or years or months or whatever you want. Ex:
Code:bool AddToDate(string& strDate, int months, int days, int years);
It's not home work, i left school 6 years ago. 22 at mo, I'm trying to write a program for me and friends. Thanks. And i have been trying to write code myself, just get confused with all the technical jargon.
Code:#include <iostream.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <dos.h>
void main()
{
struct date reset;
struct date save_date;
getdate(&save_date); //Fills in the date structure of the current date
cout << "Original date:\n";
system("date"); //Evokes a system command from the os
reset.da_year = 2001;
reset.da_day = 37;
reset.da_mon = 1;
setdate(&reset);
cout << "Date after setting:\n";
system("date");
setdate(&save_date);
cout << "Back to original date:\n";
system("date");
getchar();
}
>just get confused with all the technical jargon
So you ask for even more technical source code? Search the web, you'll find thousands of examples with a minimum of effort. It's a waste of our time to repeat code over and over for people who don't bother to do research.
-Prelude