Is this a boost question? If you want a boost solution take a look at boost::posix_time http://www.boost.org/doc/html/date_time/posix_time.html To get the local time, the following worked well for me so far. boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::local_time(); The following string conversion functions that comes with this library satisfy most of the general use cases. std::string to_simple_string(ptime) std::string to_iso_string(ptime) std::string to_iso_extended_string(ptime) Thanks, Edwin On 10/31/07, Jeff wrote:

Hello,

How can I grab the current local date and time, and format it so that it looks like this:

YYYY_MMM_DD_HH_MM_SS ?

I can't seem to get the facet stuff to work right.

Thanks, Jeff

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