How do I display the time in milliseconds, like 12:34:56.789?

[bmihura]

TimeStr() is close with 12:34:56, but there is no fractional part.

[Mert_A.]

Check out FormatDateTimeString (along with GetCurrentDateTime), with something like "%H:%M:%S.%2f" for your format string.

Mert A.
National Instruments

[bmihura]

My CVI, version 7.1, doesn't have either of those functions. I even searched through all the .h files for both of those function names.

Where can I get those functions?

[Mert_A.]

I'm sorry, those functions were added in version 8.0.  Do you really need the string to reflect the time of day?  If you are just concerned with profiling, you could always use clock()/CLOCKS_PER_SEC to get the number of seconds (with sub-second precision) your program has run.  Other than that, I'm not aware of a time utility that will give you sub-second precision.

Sorry for the confusion.

Mert A.
National Instruments

[test_man]

do following ...

1. TOP of your file//////////////////////////////

#include "windows.h"
#undef GetSystemTime
 

2. In your function///////////////////////////////

 SYSTEMTIME sdktime; 
   int mon, day, year;
  int hour, min, sec, msec;

 GetLocalTime (&sdktime);
 
 mon = sdktime.wMonth;
 day = sdktime.wDay;
 year = sdktime.wYear;
 hour = sdktime.wHour;
 min = sdktime.wMinute;
 sec = sdktime.wSecond;
 msec = sdktime.wMilliseconds;

[mvr]

The ansi strftime() function in cvi can also handle time to string conversion.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

But unfortunately does not seem to have an output format for milliseconds.

Message Edited by mvr on 07-11-2006 04:15 PM

[bmihura]

I had to include "windows.h" before some other includes, but that worked great. Thanks.

[MJF]

If you are going to use windows.h in CVI, it is good practice to always make it the first header file you include. There may be an exception or two to that but hopefully the author of the files was kind enough to put a preprocessor warning in there to tell you the proper order.