#include <iostream>	// for cout
#include <time.h>	// for time(), localtime(), and strftime()

using namespace std;

int main() {
    // Get the current time as seconds since the start of 1970.
    // These are “epoch seconds”.  Store those in a variable of type
    // time_t, which is an alias for int, long int, or something similar.
    time_t now = time(nullptr);

    // Break the epoch seconds down into numeric
    // year/month/day/hour/minute/second.  The function localtime()
    // returns a pointer to a struct tm, containing those values, but
    // struct tm * is too much work to type, so declare timevals as
    // “auto”, which means “compiler, you figure out the type”.
    auto timevals = localtime(&now);

    // Transform the broken-down time values into a human-readable
    // representation of the time.  It will go into the C string buf.
    char buf[32];
    strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%A, %B %d %T", timevals);

    // Write it for the user.
    cout << "The current time & date: " << buf << '\n';

    // This program succeeded--indicate that with a zero.
    return 0;
}