Comparing two time programs

Okay, this simple program works just fine:

Code:

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#include <iostrem>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

  time_t myTime;
  time ( &myTime );
  printf ( "Current date and time are: %s", ctime (&myTime) );

 return 0;
}

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Yet this one doesn't (it compiles but doesn't return anything):

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

class Date
{
  public:
      Date(); 
      ~Date(); 
       
  private:
      int myTime;


}; // end class Date

Date::Date()
{
  time_t myTime;
  time ( &myTime );
  printf ( "Current date and time are: %s", ctime (&myTime) );
}

int main(){

  Date h();
 
  return 0;
}

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As you can see, I'm trying to create a constructor to do the same thing that the first program does. Any info is greatly appreciated!

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit....html#faq-10.2

Code:

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#include <cstdio>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

class Date
{
  time_t myTime;
public:
  Date() : myTime ( time ( NULL ) )
  {
      printf ( "Current date and time are: %s\n", ctime (&myTime) );
  }
};

int main()
{
  Date h;
  return 0;
}

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Great link, thanks a lot!

Another question - is it possible to use strcpy to copy Date h into a string? I'm getting conversion errors ie "cannot convert parameter from class Date to char *"

Code:

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  strcpy ( timeToConvert, h ); // copy system time into timeToConvert

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Context is wonderful.

Code:

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#include <cstdio>
#include <ctime>
#include <string>

class Date
{
  std::time_t myTime;
  std::string text;
public:
  Date() : myTime ( std::time ( 0 ) ), text ( std::ctime ( &myTime ) )
  {
      std::printf ( "Current date and time are: %s\n", text.c_str() );
  }
};

int main()
{
  Date h;
  return 0;
}

/* my output
Current date and time are: Mon Apr 10 16:58:56 2006
*/

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Oops, here is an example, since we haven't covered <string> just yet:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <ctime> // for time
#include <cstring> // for strings

using namespace std;

class Date
{
  time_t myTime;

public:
  Date() : myTime ( time ( NULL ) )
  {
      printf ( "Current date and time are: %s\n", ctime (&myTime) );
  }

}; // end class Date

int main()
{
  Date h;

  string timeToConvert[30];
  char *tokenPtr;
  strcpy ( timeToConvert, h ); // copy system time into timeToConvert
  cout << timeToConvert;
  tokenPtr = strtok( timeToConvert, " ");
  while (tokenPtr !=NULL) {
      cout << tokenPtr << '\n';
          tokenPtr = strtok(NULL, " "); // get next token

  } // end while

  cout << "\nAfter tokenizing, timeToConvert is: " << timeToConvert << endl;
 
 
  return 0;
}

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The error is "Cannot convert parameter 1 from class to char *".

>> string timeToConvert[30];

c++ strings do not work like c-strings. This statement is declaring an array of 30 string objects. You must now learn how the c++ strings work. they work differently from c-strings so all the strcpy, strcmp and those functions no longer apply. Check this link http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/string.html

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Sorry, had inserted a wrong link, please check the new one
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You'd need some public method to get at the private myTime value in the class Date. Something along this line.

Code:

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char *Date::foo()
{
  return asctime(localtime(&myTime));
}

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Then you'd need to copy the text pointed to by the pointer returned by this function to a char array.

Code:

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  char timeToConvert[30];
  strcpy ( timeToConvert, h.foo() ); // copy system time into timeToConvert

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