std:: strftime

Converts the date and time information from a given calendar time tp to a null-terminated multibyte character string str according to format string format . Up to count bytes are written.

Parameters

Format string

The format string consists of zero or more conversion specifiers and ordinary characters (except % ). All ordinary characters, including the terminating null character, are copied to the output string without modification. Each conversion specification begins with % character, optionally followed by E or O modifier (ignored if unsupported by the locale), followed by the character that determines the behavior of the specifier. The following format specifiers are available:

Return value

The number of bytes written into the character array pointed to by str not including the terminating ' \0 ' on success. If count was reached before the entire string could be stored, ​ 0 ​ is returned and the contents are indeterminate.

Example

#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <locale>
 
void utcExample()
{
    // Example of the very popular RFC 3339 format UTC time
    std::time_t time = std::time({});
    char timeString[std::size("yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ")];
    std::strftime(std::data(timeString), std::size(timeString),
                  "%FT%TZ", std::gmtime(&time));
    std::cout << timeString << '\n';
}
 
int main()
{
    std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
    char mbstr[100];
 
    if (std::strftime(mbstr, sizeof(mbstr), "%A %c", std::localtime(&t)))
        std::cout << mbstr << '\n';
 
    std::locale::global(std::locale("ja_JP.utf8"));
    if (std::strftime(mbstr, sizeof(mbstr), "%A %c", std::localtime(&t)))
        std::cout << mbstr << '\n';
 
    utcExample();
}

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