std::ctime - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

Converts given time since epoch to a calendar local time and then to a textual representation, as if by calling std::asctime(std::localtime(time)). The resulting string has the following format:

Www Mmm dd hh:mm:ss yyyy\n

The function does not support localization.

[edit] Parameters

time - pointer to a std::time_t object specifying the time to print

[edit] Return value

Pointer to a static null-terminated character string holding the textual representation of date and time. The string may be shared between std::asctime and std::ctime, and may be overwritten on each invocation of any of those functions.

[edit] Notes

This function returns a pointer to static data and is not thread-safe. In addition, it modifies the static std::tm object which may be shared with std::gmtime and std::localtime. POSIX marks this function obsolete and recommends std::strftime instead.

The behavior may be undefined for the values of std::time_t that result in the string longer than 25 characters (e.g. year 10000).

[edit] Example

Possible output:

Mon Oct 11 17:10:55 2021 Mon Oct 11 17:10:55 2021

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