C++ datetime calculation api

Description

A sample of how use C++ localtime/mktime to implement datetime calculation, for example plus/minus a few days, months, years, etc.

Source Code:

#include <time.h>
#include <iomanip>

#include <iostream>

void printtm(const char * prefix, tm * tp) {
    std::cout << prefix;
    std::cout << std::setw(4) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_year + 1900;   // year
    std::cout << "/";
    std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_mon + 1;   // month
    std::cout << "/";
    std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_mday;  // day
    std::cout << " ";
    std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_hour;  // hour
    std::cout << ":";
    std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_min;   // minute
    std::cout << ":";
    std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << tp->tm_sec;   // second
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
    time_t t = time(NULL);
    tm * tp = localtime(&t);
 
    printtm("today     :", tp);
    tp->tm_mday += 2; mktime(tp);
    printtm("+2 days   :", tp);  // 2 days later
    tp->tm_mon  += 2; mktime(tp);
    printtm("+2 months :", tp);  // 2 months later
    tp->tm_year -= 2; mktime(tp);
    printtm("-2 year   :", tp);  // 2 years before
    return 0;
}

Compile and execute:

$ g++ tt.cpp 
$ ./a.out 
today     :2015/12/29 04:16:25
+2 days   :2015/12/31 04:16:25
+2 months :2016/03/02 04:16:25
-2 year   :2014/03/02 04:16:25

Limitation:

Function localtime() is not thread-unsafe, it uses an internal memory space to keep the datetime data structure, when multiply calling localtime(..) they overwrite the same memory space.

So localtime() cannot be shared among multiply threads.

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