How to get current time and date in C++?

Question

Is there a cross-platform way to get the current date and time in C++?

Answer 1

In C++ 11 you can use std::chrono::system_clock::now()

Example (copied from en.cppreference.com):

#include 
#include 
#include     

int main()
{
    auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
    // Some computation here
    auto end = std::chrono::system_clock::now();

    std::chrono::duration elapsed_seconds = end-start;
    std::time_t end_time = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(end);

    std::cout << "finished computation at " << std::ctime(&end_time)
              << "elapsed time: " << elapsed_seconds.count() << "s\n";
}

This should print something like this:

finished computation at Mon Oct  2 00:59:08 2017
elapsed time: 1.88232s