Thread: Comparing local time

Look into the ctime header file and the tm struct. More specifically, look at localtime() within ctime header or look it up at cppreference.com.

This is what my code looks like:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main() {
    time_t timedata;
    time(&timedata);
    cout << ctime(&timedata);
    return 0;
    
}

but that returns the date as well. Is there a way to parse what it returns. And how would I compare it?
EDIT: strftime() looks promising

I'd use localtime(). It returns a pointer to a tm struct. I would then display the members of the struct I wanted, rather than being forced to return an entire string. Alternatively, as you suggested, you could save the string returned by ctime() to a temp string, and parse out the values you want, but that seems harder to me. I'm not familiar with strftime(), I'll have to look it up.

Here's a link to an example of using strftime(). Looks like it should work, if you want.

http://tutorials.programmingsite.co.uk/cstrftime.php;