Hello,

I'm trying to read in two instances of date and time (from user input) into a string value (MM/DD/YY hh:mm).
I need to be able to calculate the difference between the two in order to return how much time has elapsed from the first date/time to the second date/time.

What would be the most efficient way to go about obtaining said results?

I was thinking I need to convert each year, month, day, hour, and minutes into its own integer variable, after researching immensely online I'm still not sure how to convert from a string of characters to an integer.

I just learned starting learning C++ couple months ago, I would appreciate any advice. I hope to learn.