C++ Time returned is two hours out

Question

Bit of a c++ newbie so here we go;

I have a method that is parsing a date/time, however that date/time is passed to me always with 00:00:00 as the hh:mm:ss. As such i wa

Answer 1

The reson is the mktime() method used in the first function uses local time, but gmtime() uses UTC time.

See http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/mktime/ and http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/gmtime/ for further explanation.