localtime()

It uses the argument of time(), which has the same value as the return value of time(), to fill a structure having date and time as its components, with corresponding time in the local timezone.

In order to facilitate finding the current local day, date, and time, C++ has defined several functions in the header file, so functions that will help us in achieving our objective of finding the local day, date, and time are: time():

• It is used to find the current calendar time.
• Its return type is time_t, which is an arithmetic data type capable of storing time returned by this function.
• If its argument is not NULL, then it assigns its argument the same value as its return value.

Also, Calendar dates are displayed on the screen together with the day, date, and time that are current. All the date and time-related functions and variables in C++ are found in the ctime library.