{"id":19122,"date":"2022-11-05T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-can-i-check-time-in-c\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:47:13","slug":"solved-how-can-i-check-time-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-can-i-check-time-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How can I check time in C++?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-36811105\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"36811105\" data-parentid=\"36810922\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"2\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You have to use C time function for getting computer clock&#8217;s time. <\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask the user for &#8220;his&#8221; time<\/li>\n<li>In the same time save the computer&#8217;s current time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When is time to showing updated current time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check computer current time<\/li>\n<li>Calculate the users&#8217;s current time using previous stored times as a delta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To do this, due to how C &#8220;time&#8221; function works, I&#8217;ve to store in the program the time variables in seconds, so I have to convert hours, minutes and seconds in just one single variable storing seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the function:<\/p>\n<pre><code>#include &lt;iostream&gt;\n#include &lt;conio.h&gt;\n#include &lt;time.h&gt;\n\nusing namespace std;\n\nclass Time {\nprivate:\n\n    time_t userTime;\n    time_t computerTime;\n\npublic:\n\n    void SetTime(int hour1 = 0, int minute1 = 0, int second1 = 0)\n    {\n        userTime = hour1 * 60 * 60 + minute1 * 60 + second1; \/\/ Convert input time in seconds.\n        time(&amp;computerTime); \/\/ Get computer's current time.\n\n        cout&lt;&lt;\"set time working\";\n    }\n\n    void display()\n    {\n        time_t currentComputerTime;\n        time(&amp;currentComputerTime); \/\/ Get computer's updated current time.\n\n        time_t currentUserTime = userTime + (currentComputerTime - computerTime); \/\/ Calculate current user's time in seconds.\n\n        \/\/ Convert time_t variable in hours, minutes and seconds.\n        int hour   = currentUserTime \/ (60 * 60);\n        int minute = (currentUserTime \/ 60) % 60; \n        int second = currentUserTime % 60;\n\n        cout&lt;&lt;\"hour | minute | second\"&lt;&lt;endl;\n        cout&lt;&lt;hour&lt;&lt;\" \"&lt;&lt;minute&lt;&lt;\" \"&lt;&lt;second;\n    }\n};\n\nint main()\n{\n    Time time;\n    \/\/char om;\n    int hour1, minute1,second1;\n\n    cout&lt;&lt;\"enter the hour,minute,second: \";\n    cin&gt;&gt;hour1;\n    cin&gt;&gt;minute1;\n    cin&gt;&gt;second1;\n\n    time.SetTime(hour1,minute1,second1);\n\n    char pcz[200];\n\n    cout&lt;&lt;\"\\n The current time?\";\n    cin &gt;&gt; pcz;\n\n    time.display();\n\n    return 0;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How can I check time in C++? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] You have to use C time function for getting computer clock&#8217;s time. 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