Std::ctime (3) Linux Manual Page

std::ctime – std::ctime

Synopsis

Defined in header<ctime>

    char *ctime(const std::time_t *time);

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
* Www – the day of the week (one of Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun).
* Mmm – the month (one of Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec).
* dd – the day of the month
* hh – hours
* mm – minutes
* ss – seconds
* yyyy – years
The function does not support localization.

Parameters

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

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.

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 time_t that result in the string longer than 25 characters (e.g. year 10000)

Example

// Run this code

#include <ctime>

#include <iostream>
int main()

{
    std::time_t result = std::time(nullptr);
    std::cout << std::ctime(&result);
}

Output:

Tue Dec 27 17:21:29 2011

std::ctime (3) Linux Manual Page