Getting System Time

[moonoo]

Hi
How to get the System time without using the MFC classess
CTime and CString..
I want the date and time in the YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format
and i am using the follwing code

time_t ltime ;
char tmpbuf[128] ;
struct tm *today;
today = localtime( &ltime );
strftime(tmpbuf,25,"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S",today);

This funcyion is giving the Date 1970/01/01 09:00:00 in stead of the current time and date..
Is there some others structures and functions available by which i can get the current date and time by the above method(without using the MFC Classes)

Please give an early reply..
Dev

 

[IonelBurtan]

Consider the two Api Function:
- GetSystemTime syntax
VOID GetSystemTime(
LPSYSTEMTIME lpSystemTime // system time
- GetLocalTime syntax
VOID GetLocalTime(
LPSYSTEMTIME lpSystemTime // system time
);

The second function will return the system time taking into acoont the Time Zone you are in. I think you will need this one more often.

Hope this helps, s-)

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[moonoo]

Thanks for the reply ..
How do i change the LPSYSTEMTIME to the desried format
I want the date in YYYY/DD/MM HH:MM:SS in a charecter
Array .
Please reply at the earlist
Dev

 

[IonelBurtan]

the SYSTEMTIME(not LPSYSTEMTIME, use the & operator) has the following structure:
typedef struct _SYSTEMTIME {
WORD wYear;
WORD wMonth;
WORD wDayOfWeek;
WORD wDay;
WORD wHour;
WORD wMinute;
WORD wSecond;
WORD wMilliseconds;
}
There is no default function for the exact format you want but you can use the sprintf and wsprintf functions. (do not forghet to #include <stdio.h>) - (Don't ask me how)

Hope this helps,

s-)

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