Thread: time_t doing not what i expect

what im trying to do is store the time & date into a string..

Code:

string timeformat;
time_t x;
tm * time_;
time(&x); // get current time_t value
time_ = localtime(&x);
cout << time_->tm_mday << endl;    //here it prints out the right thing..

timeformat = time_->tm_mday;  
// here it doesnt do what i want it to do. here timeformat = "";

??

Use strftime() to format time as a string

that function returns a size_t ??
whats that ?

Code:

function prototype

size_t strftime(char *s, size_t max, const char *format, const struct tm *tm);

hrm how do you actually use this function

I thought actually reading the manual would be a start

Code:

char formattedtime[100];
strftime( formattedtime, sizeof formattedtime, "%H:%M:%S", time_ );
// now put it in a C++ string
timeformat = formattedtime;