Thread: need help with ctime

Code:

#include < iostream >
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int num;

	cout << "Enter your lucky number"  << endl;
	cin  >> num;

	//if the user takes longer than 5 seconds to enter a number...
	
	//cout << "You took too damn long" << endl;
	//exit ( EXIT_FAILURE );

	return 0;
}

I'm not sure what to do with that if statement. I'm guessing you include ctime or some time header file that can accomplish such a task.

I had no idea it would that challenging to do something like that. Are you sure there isn't an easy way of doing that?

Speaking of time, does anyone know how to make a "real" timer? I'm not talking about something cheap like this:

Code:

#include < iostream >
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int miliseconds = 0;
	int seconds     = 0;
	int minutes     = 0;
	int hours       = 0;

	for ( ; ; )
	{
		cout << hours   << " : "
			 << minutes << " : "
			 << seconds << " : "
			 << miliseconds++;
		
		system ( "cls" );

		if ( miliseconds == 60 )
		{
			miliseconds = 0;
			seconds++;
		}

		if ( seconds == 60 )
		{
			seconds = 0;
			minutes++;
		}

		if ( minutes == 60 )
		{
			minutes = 0;
			hours++;
		}
	}

	return 0;
}