current date and time

[scatjay]

What is the simpliest call in Visual C++ with Measurement Studio to extract the current date and time? I am trying to have such info as 1315032804 for March 28th, 2004 at 1:15 pm. Thanks in advance for your advice.

[Elton Wells]

There are a few options, depending on what format you want the time and what kind of operations you're planning to do with it:

• ATL/MFC - CTime::GetCurrentTime


• ATL/MFC - COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime


• Win32 - GetSystemTime


• Win32 - GetLocalTime


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• C runtime - _ftime

- Elton

[TonyH]

You might also find localtime useful to convert between the time_t returned by time and a struct tm which you can pass to strftime, along with a format string, to get the time in the format you indicated.

Tony

[Hanzz]

I'm sorry to update this topic a few years later, but i have a question about this subject.

I would like to save files in a folder, this folder needs to have the name of the day the files are saved.

i have followed the links in the reply's above, but i couldn't find anything i can use in my application.

My application is a windows Forms application created in microsoft visual C++ 2005 express edition.

I'm not sure about how to get the current date information.

hope anyone can give me a clear answer

Hans

[Hanzz]

update:

I've managed to get the right info, but the way I get it is a bit ugly, I think.

I've add an unvisible MonthCalendar and read the selected date (because the selected date is automatically today).

Aint there a more simple way of getting this done?
or is this method correct?

thanks in advance

Hans

[adamg]

Hi,

Aside from the links already mentioned you can check out the MSDN API for the DateTime class. It now seems that all the general way to get a date and time have now been covered.