how do i save time to a file?
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This is how I'd do it, with a helper function that just gave you the date and time in your desired format for inclusion into any output stream:
#include <time.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
// Helper function for textual date and time.
// DTTMSZ must allow extra character for the null terminator.
#define DTTMFMT "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
#define DTTMSZ 21
static char *getDtTm (char *buff) {
time_t t = time (0);
strftime (buff, DTTMSZ, DTTMFMT, localtime (&t));
return buff;
}
int main(void) {
char buff[DTTMSZ];
fstream filestr;
filestr.open ("test.txt", fstream::out|fstream::app);
// And this is how you call it:
filestr << getDtTm (buff) << "Your message goes here" << std::endl;
filestr.close();
return 0;
}
This creates the file test.txt
with the contents:
2010-05-05 13:09:13 Your message goes here
Author by
blood
Updated on June 25, 2022Comments
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blood almost 2 years
i have a program that saves data to file and i want to put a time stamp of the current date/time on that log but when i try to write the time to the file it will not show up but the other data i write will.
#include <iostream> #include <windows.h> #include <fstream> #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <direct.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> using namespace std; string header_str = ("NULL"); int main() { for(;;) { stringstream header(stringstream::in | stringstream::out); header << "datasdasdasd_"; time_t rawtime; time ( &rawtime ); header << ctime (&rawtime); header_str = header.str(); fstream filestr; filestr.open ("C:\\test.txt", fstream::in | fstream::out | fstream::app | ios_base::binary | ios_base::out); for(;;) { filestr << (header_str); } filestr.close(); } return 0; }
anyone know how to fix this?