How to convert CString to CTime

**Heather5** · 03-09-2009

I want to use system's date/time which is in mm/dd/yy format in code. But the problem is that the time that I am getting is not in ate/time format. So I want to change it to CTime format so that I can use it. How is this going to be possible? How can I convert the CString into CTIme format?

**Reegan** · 03-09-2009

Code:

CTime stTime;
CTime *dynTime;

dynTime = new CTime(cstringYear,cstringMonth,cstringDay,cstringHour,cstringMin,cstringSec,cstringDsT);
stTime = dynTime;
delete dynTime;

In the above code, you call the system time and save it to your "stTime" and then use this variable in your code.

**fellah** · 03-09-2009

Code:

COleDateTime myDtTime;
CTime sysTime;
if(myDtTime.ParseDateTime(strTimestampOther))
{
      SYSTEMTIME st;
      if(myDtTime.GetAsSystemTime(st))
      {
            sysTime = st;
       }
}
else
ASSERT(FALSE);

**kelfro** · 03-09-2009

I suppose it is not possible to convert a CString object to a CTime object. However if you still want to do so then you can format your time which is in string format into a CTime. You can also divide it into hours, minutes, seconds etc and manually create the CTime object.