How to Convert the GMT date string to CTime or COLEDatetime
"2011/06/01 3:20:20 GMT + 5:30"
COleDateTime::ParseDateTime
The lpszDate parameter can take a variety of formats. For example, the following strings contain acceptable date/time formats:
"25 January 1996"
"8:30:00"
"20:30:00"
"January 25, 1996 8:30:00"
"8:30:00 Jan. 25, 1996"
"1/25/1996 8:30:00" // always specify the full year,
// even in a 'short date' format
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;
int main( )
{
// current date/time based on current system
time_t now = time(0);
// convert now to string form
char* dt = ctime(&now);
cout << "The local date and time is: " << dt << endl;
// convert now to tm struct for UTC
tm *gmtm = gmtime(&now);
dt = asctime(gmtm);
cout << "The UTC date and time is:"<< dt << endl;
}
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I have this simple piece of code
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
time_t now = time(0);
tm timeDate;
strptime("2023-2-10 15:03","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", &timeDate);
time_t time_input = mktime(&timeDate);
char* dt = ctime(&now);
char* dt2 = ctime(&time_input);
cout << "The local date and time is: " << dt << endl;
cout << "The input date and time is: " << dt2 << endl;
return 0;
}
that should print those two dates. But I receive the same date according to which is processed first.
The local date and time is: Fri Feb 10 15:03:00 2023
The input date and time is: Fri Feb 10 15:03:00 2023
or
The local date and time is: Mon Feb 13 12:32:17 2023
The input date and time is: Mon Feb 13 12:32:17 2023
The ctime function is not reentrant, which means that you cannot safely call it multiple times and reuse the same output.
Instead, use the ctime_r function which writes its output into a buffer you supply and then the times will be different.
I have Problem with comparing dates from chrono library.
For example, something should happen when the date_to_do_something is matched with the current date.
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <typeinfo>
using namespace std;
int main(){
end = chrono::system_clock::now();
string date_to_do_something ="Tue Jul 27 17:13:17 2021";
time_t end_time = chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(end);
//gives some weird types:pc, pl
cout<<typeid(ctime(&end_time)).name()<<endl;
cout<<typeid(&end_time).name()<<endl;
//Now how to compare?
}
First of all, pc and pl types are types char* and long*. If you want to print the full type name using typeid pipe your output to c++filt, something like ./prog | c++filt --types.
To compare these two dates, you should convert std::string to time_t. For that use tm structure. To convert string to time use strptime() function from time.h header. After that create time_point value using from_time_t() and mktime(). And at the end convert time_point_t type to time_t with to_time_t() function.
Your code should be something like this:
auto end = chrono::system_clock::now();
string date_to_do_something = "Mon Jul 27 17:13:17 2021";
time_t end_time = chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(end);
// gives some weird types:pc, pl
cout << typeid(ctime(&end_time)).name() << endl;
cout << typeid(&end_time).name() << endl;
// Now how to compare?
tm t = tm{};
strptime(date_to_do_something.c_str(), "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", &t);
chrono::system_clock::time_point tp =
chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(mktime(&t));
time_t time = chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(tp);
if (time == end_time) {
// do something
} else {
// do something else
}
This question already has answers here:
Convert time_t from localtime zone to UTC
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Closed 2 years ago.
How can I get a datetime in UTC time in this format ('2002-05-30T09:30:10Z') in C++?
This is the function I have made.
void settime(){
// Current date/time based on current system
time_t now = time(0);
// Convert now to tm struct for local timezone
tm* localtm = localtime(&now);
cout << "The local date and time is: " << asctime(localtm) << endl;
// Convert now to tm struct for UTC
tm* gmtm = gmtime(&now);
if (gmtm != NULL) {
cout << "The UTC date and time is: " << asctime(gmtm) << endl;
}
else {
cerr << "Failed to get the UTC date and time" << endl;
}
}
This function print in this format 'The UTC date and time is: Mon Oct 12 18:56:59 2020' right now.
Using this free, open-source, header-only preview of C++20 <chrono>:
#include "date/date.h"
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
int
main()
{
namespace cr = std::chrono;
std::cout << date::format("%FT%TZ", cr::floor<cr::seconds>(cr::system_clock::now())) << '\n';
}
This will easily port to C++20 by:
Drop #include "date/date.h"
Change date::format to std::format
Change "%FT%TZ" to "{:%FT%TZ}"
Consider a historic date string of format:
Thu Jan 9 12:35:34 2014
I want to parse such a string into some kind of C++ date representation, then calculate the amount of time that has passed since then.
From the resulting duration I need access to the numbers of seconds, minutes, hours and days.
Can this be done with the new C++11 std::chrono namespace? If not, how should I go about this today?
I'm using g++-4.8.1 though presumably an answer should just target the C++11 spec.
std::tm tm = {};
std::stringstream ss("Jan 9 2014 12:35:34");
ss >> std::get_time(&tm, "%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S");
auto tp = std::chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(std::mktime(&tm));
GCC prior to version 5 doesn't implement std::get_time. You should also be able to write:
std::tm tm = {};
strptime("Thu Jan 9 2014 12:35:34", "%a %b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", &tm);
auto tp = std::chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(std::mktime(&tm));
New answer for old question. Rationale for the new answer: The question was edited from its original form because tools at the time would not handle exactly what was being asked. And the resulting accepted answer gives a subtly different behavior than what the original question asked for.
I'm not trying to put down the accepted answer. It's a good answer. It's just that the C API is so confusing that it is inevitable that mistakes like this will happen.
The original question was to parse "Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:34 +0000". So clearly the intent was to parse a timestamp representing a UTC time. But strptime (which isn't standard C or C++, but is POSIX) does not parse the trailing UTC offset indicating this is a UTC timestamp (it will format it with %z, but not parse it).
The question was then edited to ask about "Thu Jan 9 12:35:34 2014". But the question was not edited to clarify if this was a UTC timestamp, or a timestamp in the computer's current local timezone. The accepted answer implicitly assumes the timestamp represents the computer's current local timezone because of the use of std::mktime.
std::mktime not only transforms the field type tm to the serial type time_t, it also performs an offset adjustment from the computer's local time zone to UTC.
But what if we want to parse a UTC timestamp as the original (unedited) question asked?
That can be done today using this newer, free open-source library.
#include "date/date.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
int
main()
{
using namespace std;
using namespace date;
istringstream in{"Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:34 +0000"};
sys_seconds tp;
in >> parse("%a, %d %b %Y %T %z", tp);
}
This library can parse %z. And date::sys_seconds is just a typedef for:
std::chrono::time_point<std::chrono::system_clock, std::chrono::seconds>
The question also asks:
From the resulting duration I need access to the numbers of seconds, minutes, hours and days.
That part has remained unanswered. Here's how you do it with this library.
#include "date/date.h"
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
int
main()
{
using namespace std;
using namespace date;
istringstream in{"Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:34 +0000"};
sys_seconds tp;
in >> parse("%a, %d %b %Y %T %z", tp);
auto tp_days = floor<days>(tp);
auto hms = hh_mm_ss<seconds>{tp - tp_days};
std::cout << "Number of days = " << tp_days.time_since_epoch() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of hours = " << hms.hours() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of minutes = " << hms.minutes() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of seconds = " << hms.seconds() << '\n';
}
floor<days> truncates the seconds-precision time_point to a days-precision time_point. If you subtract the days-precision time_point from tp, you're left with a duration that represents the time since midnight (UTC).
The type hh_mm_ss<seconds> takes any duration convertible to seconds (in this case time since midnight) and creates a {hours, minutes, seconds} field type with getters for each field. If the duration has precision finer than seconds this field type will also have a getter for the subseconds. Prior to C++17, one has to specify that finer duration as the template parameter. In C++17 and later it can be deduced:
auto hms = hh_mm_ss{tp - tp_days};
Finally, one can just print out all of these durations. This example outputs:
Number of days = 16079d
Number of hours = 12h
Number of minutes = 35min
Number of seconds = 34s
So 2014-01-09 is 16079 days after 1970-01-01.
Here is the full example but at milliseconds precision:
#include "date/date.h"
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
int
main()
{
using namespace std;
using namespace std::chrono;
using namespace date;
istringstream in{"Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:34.123 +0000"};
sys_time<milliseconds> tp;
in >> parse("%a, %d %b %Y %T %z", tp);
auto tp_days = floor<days>(tp);
hh_mm_ss hms{tp - tp_days};
std::cout << tp << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of days = " << tp_days.time_since_epoch() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of hours = " << hms.hours() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of minutes = " << hms.minutes() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of seconds = " << hms.seconds() << '\n';
std::cout << "Number of milliseconds = " << hms.subseconds() << '\n';
}
Output:
2014-01-09 12:35:34.123
Number of days = 16079d
Number of hours = 12h
Number of minutes = 35min
Number of seconds = 34s
Number of milliseconds = 123ms
This library is now part of C++20, but is in namespace std::chrono and found in the header <chrono>.
This is rather C-ish and not as elegant of a solution as Simple's answer, but I think it might work. This answer is probably wrong but I'll leave it up so someone can post corrections.
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
int main ()
{
struct tm timeinfo;
std::string buffer = "Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:00";
if (!strptime(buffer.c_str(), "%a, %d %b %Y %T", &timeinfo))
std::cout << "Error.";
time_t now;
struct tm timeinfo2;
time(&now);
timeinfo2 = *gmtime(&now);
time_t seconds = difftime(mktime(&timeinfo2), mktime(&timeinfo));
time(&seconds);
struct tm result;
result = *gmtime ( &seconds );
std::cout << result.tm_sec << " " << result.tm_min << " "
<< result.tm_hour << " " << result.tm_mday;
return 0;
}
Cases covered (code is below):
since a give date until now
long int min0 = getMinutesSince( "2005-02-19 12:35:00" );
since the epoch until now
long int min1 = getMinutesSince1970( );
between two date+hours (since the epoch until a given date)
long int min0 = getMinutesSince1970Until( "2019-01-18 14:23:00" );
long int min1 = getMinutesSince1970Until( "2019-01-18 14:27:00" );
cout << min1 - min0 << endl;
Complete code:
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
// ------------------------------------------------
// ------------------------------------------------
long int getMinutesSince1970Until( string dateAndHour ) {
tm tm = {};
stringstream ss( dateAndHour );
ss >> get_time(&tm, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
chrono::system_clock::time_point tp = chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(mktime(&tm));
return
chrono::duration_cast<chrono::minutes>(
tp.time_since_epoch()).count();
} // ()
// ------------------------------------------------
// ------------------------------------------------
long int getMinutesSince1970() {
chrono::system_clock::time_point now = chrono::system_clock::now();
return
chrono::duration_cast<chrono::minutes>( now.time_since_epoch() ).count();
} // ()
// ------------------------------------------------
// ------------------------------------------------
long int getMinutesSince( string dateAndHour ) {
tm tm = {};
stringstream ss( dateAndHour );
ss >> get_time(&tm, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
chrono::system_clock::time_point then =
chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(mktime(&tm));
chrono::system_clock::time_point now = chrono::system_clock::now();
return
chrono::duration_cast<chrono::minutes>(
now.time_since_epoch()-
then.time_since_epoch()
).count();
} // ()
// ------------------------------------------------
// ------------------------------------------------
int main () {
long int min = getMinutesSince1970Until( "1970-01-01 01:01:00" );
cout << min << endl;
long int min0 = getMinutesSince1970Until( "2019-01-18 14:23:00" );
long int min1 = getMinutesSince1970Until( "2019-01-18 14:27:00" );
if ( (min1 - min0) != 4 ) {
cout << " something is wrong " << endl;
} else {
cout << " it appears to work !" << endl;
}
min0 = getMinutesSince( "1970-01-01 01:00:00" );
min1 = getMinutesSince1970( );
if ( (min1 - min0) != 0 ) {
cout << " something is wrong " << endl;
} else {
cout << " it appears to work !" << endl;
}
} // ()
I wanted a function that would take three inputs of day, month, year and tell me whether it is valid or not. Then using the example on http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/mktime/
I tried to implement my function:
bool ValidDate(int d, int m, int y)
{
struct tm *timeinfo;
time_t rawtime;
time (&rawtime);
timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);
timeinfo->tm_year = y - 1900;
timeinfo->tm_mon = m - 1;
timeinfo->tm_mday = d;
if (mktime(timeinfo) == -1 )
return false;
else return true;
}
The problem is that the function is returning not as i want it to.
e.g im checking like
if (ValidDate(4,13,2010)) // out put is valid
std::cout << "valid\n";
else std::cout << "Invalid\n";
ValidDate(4,22,2010) // valid
ValidDate(344,13,2010) //valid
ValidDate(4,133,2010) //valid
ValidDate(31,12, 1920) //invalid
ValidDate(31,9,2010) //valid
ValidDate(4,9,2010) //valid
Why? thanks.
EDIT:
all dates entered were invalid except 31,12,1920 and 4,9,2010 and non of the outputs were correct.
mktime return is as follow :
Time since epoch as a std::time_t object on success or -1 if time cannot be represented as a std::time_t object.
std::time_t is defined as follow :
Arithmetic type capable of representing times.
Although not defined, this is almost always a integral value holding the number of seconds (not counting leap seconds) since 00:00, Jan 1 1970 UTC, corresponding to POSIX time.
So 31/12/1920 cannot be represented into a std::time_t as it is before the epoch.
As for the other invalid dates that are reported as valid, mktime also states :
The values in [the parameter] are permitted to be outside their normal ranges.
Here is the example taken from cppreference :
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <ctime>
int main()
{
std::time_t t = std::time(NULL);
std::tm tm = *std::localtime(&t);
std::cout << "Today is " << std::put_time(&tm, "%c %Z") <<'\n';
tm.tm_mon -= 100; // tm_mon is now outside its normal range
std::mktime(&tm);
std::cout << "100 months ago was " << std::put_time(&tm, "%c %Z") << '\n';
}
Output is :
Today is Wed Dec 28 09:56:10 2011 EST
100 months ago was Thu Aug 28 10:56:10 2003 EDT