Three ways to get UTC time in C++

1. C++ way:

#include <ctime>

std::string currentDateTimeUTC( )

{

    struct tm tm;

    std::time_t time = std::time(nullptr);

    if (gmtime_s(&tm, &time))

        return ("");

    char utc[_countof("1970-01-01T00:00:00")];

    strftime(utc, _countof(utc), "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", &tm);

    return (utc);

}

auto result = currentDateTimeUTC( );

2. boost way:

#include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp>

using namespace boost::posix_time;

auto result = to_iso_extended_string(second_clock::universal_time());

3. Qt way:

#include <QDateTime>

auto result = QDateTime::currentDateTimeUtc().toString(Qt::ISODate).toStdString();

How to fast initialize a really big array with 16, 32, 64 bit asf values

Sometimes we need a version of memset which sets a value that is larger than one byte. memset only uses one byte of the value passed in and does byte-wise initialization. If you want to initialize an array with a particular value larger than one byte, just use these approaches:

1. Just use a simple for ( ; ; )  In most cases this is a simple and good way.

2. std::fill, std::fill_n

#define BUFF_SIZE 1024 * 1024 * 1536
...
uint16_t val16 = 10000;
uint32_t val32 = 10000 * 10000L;
uint64_t val64 = 10000 * 10000 * 10000LL;
void* buff = new uint8_t[BUFF_SIZE];
...
std::fill_n((uint16_t*)buff, BUFF_SIZE / sizeof(val16), val16);
std::fill_n((uint32_t*)buff, BUFF_SIZE / sizeof(val32), val32);
std::fill_n((uint64_t*)buff, BUFF_SIZE / sizeof(val64), val64);

3. The memset function is very optimized in the compilers. Some implementations offer a 16-bit version memsetw, but that's not everywhere. The memcpy implementations are often written with SIMD instructions which makes it possible to shuffle 128 bits at a time. SIMD instructions are assembly instructions that can perform the same operation on each element in a vector up to 16 bytes long. That includes load and store instructions. So, here is a memsetx function which is implemented via memcpy:

template <typename T>
void memsetx(void* dst, T& val, unsigned int size)
{
    uint32_t i = 0;

    for ( ; i < (size & (~(sizeof(T) - 1))); i += sizeof(T))
        memcpy((uint8_t*)dst + i, &val, sizeof(T));

    for ( ; i < size; ++i)
        ((uint8_t*)dst)[i] = ((uint8_t*)&val)[i & (sizeof(T) - 1)];
}
...
memsetx(buff, val16, BUFF_SIZE);
memsetx(buff, val32, BUFF_SIZE);
memsetx(buff, val64, BUFF_SIZE);
...
memsetx(buff, val1024, BUFF_SIZE);
...