[no2pencil]

Knowing the Operating System you are coding for would be helpful.

[Sloot]

First:
"ctime Convert time_t value to string (function)"

Second:

"char * ctime ( const time_t * timer );
Convert time_t value to string

Converts the time_t object pointed by timer to a C string containing a human-readable version of the corresponding local time and date.

The returned string has the following format:

Www Mmm dd hh:mm:ss yyyy
"

Thus:

#include <time.h>

time_t rawtime;
time(&rawtime);

//rawtime now holds the time in string formated as above. 
//since you want hours (pos 8 and 9), and strings can be used
//just like arrays:
char hours[2];
hours[0]=rawtime[8];
hours[1]=rawtime[9];

cout<<hours;