Ctime

Question

I've been trying to use the <ctime> to store time variables. I need the hours, mins, and secs in separate variables. Can this be done with <ctime>? And everywhere I look for <ctime> help, I find <time.h>, whats up with that? 

Thanks for any help 

Answer 1

ctime is a safe include for time.h so that is really why you are getting this.

So the documentation you should look at is the time functions in the runtime routines. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w4ddyt9h.aspx for time)

The two functions you want in particular are gmtime and mktime. gmtime reads a time_t and converts it to a tm structure, mktime takes a tm structure and outputs a time_t.

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Answer 2

Thanks