Change Date format

manju 123

Hi all. I want to change a date format from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd.. suppose i am getting date as.. Date = 12/04/2008 i want it to be changed to 2008/04/12.. I am trying with the below code but i am getting the system time.. the code is

CString Date,Datee;
Date = "12/05/2008;"
SYSTEMTIME sysTime;
GetSystemTime(&sysTime);
Datee.Format("%04d%02d%02d",sysTime.wYear,sysTime.wMonth,sysTime.wDay);

can anyone help me manju

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Cedric Moonen

manju#123 wrote:

I want to change a date format from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd..

It would help a lot if you would tell us what this date is: is it stored in a plain string, a COLEDataTime object, ... ? Don't you have the different elements of the data (day, month and year) separately available ?

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_AnsHUMAN_

manju#123 wrote:

SYSTEMTIME sysTime; GetSystemTime(&sysTime);

Gets the current system time in UTC

manju#123 wrote:

I am trying with the below code but i am getting the system time..

because you are using the system time and just formatting it before displaying

manju#123 wrote:

Datee.Format("%04d%02d%02d",sysTime.wYear,sysTime.wMonth,sysTime.wDay);

Do you try to print the Datee string after the string is formatted? It should now be in the format you need.

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enhzflep

Try using GetLocalTime...

Sandeep Saini SRE

If you are talking about Date variable then you can get the desired format using -

CString Date = "12/05/2008";
CString YY,MM,DD;
int nLen;

nLen = Date.ReverseFind('/');
YY = Date.Right(nLen - 1);
Date = Date.Left(nLen);

nLen = Date.ReverseFind('/');
MM = Date.Right(nLen);
Date = Date.Left(nLen);

DD = Date;
CString sNewDateFormat;
sNewDateFormat.Format("%s/%s/%s",YY,MM,DD);

And if you are talking about the variable Datee, then the code written by you is fine.

David Crow

manju#123 wrote:

I am trying with the below code but i am getting the system time..

No surprise there since you are explicitly using sysTime members.

manju#123 wrote:

can anyone help me

Yes. To get your yyyy/mm/dd format, use:

Datee.Format("%04d/%02d/%02d", sysTime.wYear, sysTime.wMonth, sysTime.wDay);

Now if you are actually wanting to use the date in the Date variable, try:

CString Date = "12/05/2008";
COleDateTime dt;
dt.ParseDateTime(Date);
CString Datee = dt.Format("%Y/%m/%d");

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