Getting system Date

[Sridar]

I was looking in the FAQ's but the topic was pretty unclear. I want to know how to get the date from the system. Can anyone tell me the specific or recommended function to use? I want it in the mm/dd/yyyy format.

[ILoveVectors]

http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/datetimedisc.asp

this might be of some use, if you dont feel liek reading a
windows specific function would be GetSystemTime()

do a google search im sure you can prolly acheive something
with that, or maybe time_t

[Zach L.]

Here are some functions to deal with time, and formatting it in various ways (from the standard <ctime> header): http://cppreference.com/stddate/

You could also just bring it flowers and ask really nicely.

Cheers

[Sridar]

That site is kinda iffy. So do i just say, GetSystemTime() and use the time.h library?


Will this work?

example:

#include<iostream> 
#include<time.h>
#include<string.h>
usign namespace std;

int main()
{
string Time;

Time=GetSystemTime();

cout<<Time;

cin.get();

return 0;
}

[Dave_Sinkula]

Something to start from. Jostle the format specifier a little. Perhaps "%m/%d/%Y".