how can we get the system time?

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label5.Text = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString(); this would give a long value.

label6.Text = DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
this would also give the same long value of time.how can we get a short time value(only the time value not the date)?

1/1/1900 3:34:00 AM would be the result for both label5 n label6

Posted 3-Jul-11 12:10pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-07-03T12:43:00

There is no such thing as short or long time. To make a step further, I'll say there is no such thing as date vs time. (The type name DateTime is confusing, but this is due to tradition.) There is just time; everything else is related to its string representation. You need to work with time, not with its string representation. You should not do any calculations with string representation. You should only use it when you need to show a time string on screen of in text file.

Therefore, a single expression skipping intermediate DateTime value like DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString is hardly useful anywhere.

A comprehensive ways of formatting time according to different UI cultures and any thinkable requirements is provided by the set of methods System.DateTime.ToString.

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx[^].

—SA

sanomama · Answer 2 · 2011-07-03T15:51:00

Solution 3

u can input the desired format yourself by creating a object of datetime function.

datatime obj= datetime.now;

string datentime;

datentime= obj.tostring(" HH:MM:SS "); //output is 7:30:55
("HH:MM tt"); /output is 7:30 pm

Posted 3-Jul-11 15:51pm

sanomama

Member 8043849 · Answer 3 · 2011-07-03T14:33:00

Solution 2

plz do check it again it gives only time : eg 6:51 AM
label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() ;

Posted 3-Jul-11 14:33pm

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Aneesh M · Answer 4 · 2011-07-04T01:39:00

Solution 4

hi,

use tostring formatter
label5.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Posted 4-Jul-11 1:39am

Aneesh M