To get Current sytem time

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Hi Everyone..

i want code for to get current system time with out any using third party tool. i am using "Datetime.Now" but it gives current database time.. but i want current PC time..

please help me...

Thanks in advance...

Posted 6-May-14 2:56am

NaniCh

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Thanks7872 6-May-14 8:58am

It doesnt give you database time. In very simple words, if you deploy your app on server than it will give you time of that system. Whats your exact issue?

Sanket Saxena 6-May-14 9:00am

There is no way to do it in C#, you have to get the time offset in javascript. Check my solution.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-14 10:45am

Not Datetime.Now, but DateTime.Now. It does not give you the "database time", it gives you system time... on the system where the call is done, server-side in this case.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-05-06T04:51:00

Please see my comment to the question. You really take the current system time, but on the server side, of course. If your concern is the time shift, you can always take unified time by calling the property System.DateTime.UtcNow:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.utcnow.aspx[^].

This way, you can get synchronized time for all your clients. To display time on client side, you can get the current timezone offset (getTimezoneOffset()) and display local time. See, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2263705/display-local-time-from-utc-time-stored-in-sql-database-on-asp-net-app[^],
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6525538/convert-utc-date-time-to-local-date-time-using-javascript[^].

This is the alternative approach, but in many cases this is exactly what is needed.

—SA

*Abhishek Pant* · Answer 2 · 2014-05-06T03:04:00

Solution 3

get date using javascript[^]

Posted 6-May-14 3:04am

Abhishek Pant

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King Fisher 6-May-14 9:12am

good one

Abhishek Pant 6-May-14 9:12am

Thanks for vote

Darshan.Pa · Answer 3 · 2014-05-06T03:02:00

you can use DateTime.Now in c#,

if it is windows application it will give machine's date, but in web application it will five server's date.

to do in web application use javascript to get client machine's date time and pass it to webmethod to use it further

http://runnable.com/UhKwAWqqRscRAADQ/retrieve-client-s-today-s-date-using-asp-net[^]

Sanket Saxena · Answer 4 · 2014-05-06T03:03:00

Solution 2

Check out :
How to get the date time of client PC in asp.net C#?

Posted 6-May-14 3:03am

Sanket Saxena

Updated 6-May-14 3:08am

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