MS Visual Studio Console Date & Time

[bont]

I have been looking everywhere for a simple way to do this, including here. Can anyone please answer this question?

I am using MS Visual Studio 6.0 C++, and I am just writing a console application (NO MFC). All I need to do is retrieve the system date and time, and store them into strings, to be manipulated later. Could someone please show me what libraries to add, and how to store them into the strings. There are so many ways out there, and none of them seem to be working.

Thanxs

 

[raochetan]

Use _strdate(char *datestr) in time.h header file. It copies the date to a buffer pointed by datestr, formatted in mm/dd/yy.

Try it out. Hope it helps

raochetan

 

[bont]

OK , I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense to me. I usually declare my strings as char MyString[], and not char *MyString; How do I convert back and forth. And again, I have MS Visual Studio, which seems not to have time.h but ctime.h. Any help?

 

[sflam]

time.h is available in MSVC. There is an example in _strdate doc. In short, you can do:

char MyString[9];
_strdate(MyString);


HTH
Shyan