error: use of undeclared identifier 'ctime_s'

Question

When I try to compile a cpp code using ctime_s, use of undeclared identifier 'ctime_s' occurred. How can I fix it?

main.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    // insert code here...
    std::cout << "Hello, World!\n";
    time_t a;
    char tt[26];
    time(&a);
    ctime_s(tt,sizeof(tt),&a);
    printf("%s",tt);
    return 0;
}

result

Machida-no-MacBook-Air:KnowledgeBase machidahiroaki$ gcc main.cpp --verbose
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0
Thread model: posix
 "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang" -cc1 -triple x86_64-apple-macosx10.10.0 -emit-obj -mrelax-all -disable-free -disable-llvm-verifier -main-file-name main.cpp -mrelocation-model pic -pic-level 2 -mdisable-fp-elim -masm-verbose -munwind-tables -target-cpu core2 -target-linker-version 242 -v -dwarf-column-info -resource-dir /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/clang/6.1.0 -stdlib=libc++ -fdeprecated-macro -fdebug-compilation-dir /Users/machidahiroaki/RubymineProjects/KnowledgeBase/KnowledgeBase -ferror-limit 19 -fmessage-length 160 -stack-protector 1 -mstackrealign -fblocks -fobjc-runtime=macosx-10.10.0 -fencode-extended-block-signature -fcxx-exceptions -fexceptions -fmax-type-align=16 -fdiagnostics-show-option -fcolor-diagnostics -o /var/folders/c6/p5fy29197r167b46tsw36gb00000gn/T/main-50c81e.o -x c++ main.cpp
clang -cc1 version 6.1.0 based upon LLVM 3.6.0svn default target x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/include/c++/v1"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../include/c++/v1
 /usr/local/include
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/clang/6.1.0/include
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include
 /usr/include
 /System/Library/Frameworks (framework directory)
 /Library/Frameworks (framework directory)
End of search list.
main.cpp:18:2: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ctime_s'
        ctime_s(tt,sizeof(tt),&a);
        ^
1 error generated.

Answer 1

1. In C++ ctime_s is not yet implemented.

2. It's a C function which is part of c11, meaning you would have to add -std=c11 to your compiler flags.

   C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

   7.27.3.2 The ctime function (p: 393)

   K.3.8.2.2 The ctime_s function (p: 626)

Also in your code you are mixing c++ with c.

For reference:

A fourth version of the C standard, known as C11, was published in 2011 as ISO/IEC 9899:2011. GCC has substantially complete support for this standard, enabled with -std=c11 or -std=iso9899:2011. (While in development, drafts of this standard version were referred to as C1X.)