C++ Program to Display Current Date and Time

This C++ program prints the current date and time. The program uses the time library where a time_t structure is initialized to current date and time. The various members of the structure, i.e. current date, day in week, month and year, etc. can be accessed and the date can be printed in any format. The member tm_year is number of years since 1900.

Here is the source code of the C++ program prints the current date and time. The C++ program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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 * C++ Program to Print Current Date and Time

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#include <iostream>
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#include <ctime>
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#include <iomanip>
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std::string month[] = { "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",

                        "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" };

std::string day[] = { "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat" };

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int main()
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{
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    time_t timer;
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    tm * time;
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    const int BASE_YEAR = 1900;
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    std::time(&timer);
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    time = localtime(&timer);
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    std::cout << "Current date " << day[time->tm_wday] << " "

              << month[time->tm_mon] << " " << time->tm_mday

              << " " << (time->tm_year + BASE_YEAR);

    std::cout << "\nCurrent time " << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0')

              << time->tm_hour << " : " << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0')

              << time->tm_min << " : " << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0')

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              << time->tm_sec;   
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}
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$ a.out
Current date Thu Oct 10 2013
Current time 00 : 24 : 50

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