Current Date to CString 1

[dcusick]

Can anyone help me out and tell me how to get Current Date to a CString variable? All I would need is to take the current date in mm/dd/yyyy format, with slashes and all, and put that into a string. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks...

 

[qednick]

You can use [tt]CTime::GetCurrentTime()[/tt] to get the current date and time. Then you can use [tt]CTime::Format()[/tt] to format the output into a CString in manner you want!

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[dcusick]

Perfect! Thanks gednick, was EXACTLY what I needed... One more quick question for you... Is there any way to add up the Day, Month and Year values and put the result into an integer? For Example, 12/17/2002, would equal 12+17+2002=2031. Thanks again for your help on my first question.

 

[dcusick]

Ok, I got it... In case anyone was interested, I just used the GetDay(), GetMonth() and GetYear() functions and assigned them to int values... As easy as that... Thanks again..

 

[qednick]

well that's good but there's also a couple of other methods it would be handy for you to know about.

First, the basic [tt]time_t[/tt] structure, once intialized, will return the number of seconds that have elapsed since 1970 Jan 1st (I think! if I recall correctly).

Therefore, you can get the current time:

[tt]#include <time.h>

time_t theTime;

time(&theTime);
gmtime(&theTime);[/tt]

if you examine the contents of [tt]theTime[/tt] as a numeric value, it will be a very large integer value. In other words, the number of seconds since 1970.

You can therefore, create a time based on one week from now by adding the appropriate number of seconds to [tt]theTime[/tt] - for example, if you want to create some kind of time limited feature in a program.

However, MFC supplies an easier way called [tt]CTimeSpan[/tt] which includes all the necessary operators for examining and comparing time values.

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