conversion of date and time to string [modified]

[AmbiguousName]

hello guys...i did not inted to confuse all of you. I want to show the system time in a messaagebox and im using the following code

  SYSTEMTIME st;
  GetLocalTime(&st);

now as stated earlier, i want to show it in a messagebox thus need to convert it to string, how can I do that??

modified on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:14 AM

[_Superman_]

How is the date and time represented? If using COleDateTime, you can use its Format method. Otherwise use sprintf_s or swprintf_s to format the date and time into a string. You can also use CString::Format instead.

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[Cedric Moonen]

What do you mean by "date and time" exactly ? You have different types of objects that can represent date and time, so what are you using ? Take a look for instance at COLEDateTime[^].

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[CPallini]

If you're using ATL/MFC COleDateTime then have a look at Format method. If you're instead using Win32 then read about strftime function. :)

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if there are many if's in the replies, maybe you should provide more information to start with. :)

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[David Crow]

overloaded Name wrote:

...thus need to convert it to string, how can I do that??

In addition to the others, there's also asctime() and ctime().

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[Shivanand Gupta]

in mfc use COleDateTime class and after that Format method in win 32 use sprintf function