C++: how to get the actual time with time and localtime?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to save the time in a HH::MM::SS fashion in C++. I saw here that they are many solutions and after a little research I opted for time and

Answer 1

You can run continuous clock using following code. It works nicely.

#include 
#include  
#include 
using namespace std;

void main() {
  while(true) {
    system("cls"); //to clear screen
    time_t tim;
    time(&tim); 
    cout << ctime(&tim); 
    Sleep(1);
  }
}