Getting Data + Time

[Skute]

[Non MFC]

Hi,

how can i get the current system date and time and format it nicely?

Ive seen some function in the CRT but i dont really want to use them as yet. Is there a windows API call i can make?

Thanks

 

[palbano]

GetSystemTime()

typedef struct _SYSTEMTIME {  
WORD wYear;  
WORD wMonth;  
WORD wDayOfWeek;  
WORD wDay;  
WORD wHour;  
WORD wMinute;  
WORD wSecond;  
WORD wMilliseconds;
} SYSTEMTIME, *PSYSTEMTIME;

>> and format it nicely?

Sorry but that is not a valid requirement since it is completely ambiguous.

-pete

 

[Skute]

Thanks alot,

for the formatting i just meant, format as a long date type and convert it to a character string or something, but that shouldnt be too difficult.

thanks for quick reply

 

[palbano]

To use dates and to format them as strings in standard date representations like ISO date string use the BOOST gregorian::date class.

For custom formating the C++ runtime library provides the ASNI fucntion strftime.

-pete

 

[palbano]

>> ASNI fucntion
darn fingers... ANSI function

-pete