Get the current time in C

Copy-pasted from here:
/* localtime example */
#include
#include

int main ()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;

time ( &rawtime );
timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
printf ( “Current local time and date: %s”, asctime (timeinfo) );

return 0;
}

(just add void to the main() arguments list in order for this to work in C)

Initialize your now variable.
time_t now = time(0); // Get the system time

The localtime function is used to convert the time value in the passed time_t to a struct tm, it doesn’t actually retrieve the system time.