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

There's always the __TIMESTAMP__ preprocessor macro.

#include 

using namespace std

void printBuildDateTime () {
    cout << __TIMESTAMP__ << endl;
}

int main() {
    printBuildDateTime();
}

example: Sun Apr 13 11:28:08 2014