How to convert a textual date and time into ctime

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I am looking for a way to convert a textual date and time into a CTime.
Textual date and time could be:

Quote:
"27 December 1999"
"8:30:00"
"20:30:00"
"January 25, 1996 8:30:00"
"8:30:00 Jan. 25, 1996"
"1/25/1996 8:30:00"

What I have tried:

I wrote the following function, however ParseDateTime always fail.

CTime DateTimeString2CTime(CString DateTimeStr)
{
	COleDateTime t;
	if (t.ParseDateTime(DateTimeStr))
	{
		CTime result(t);
		return result;
	}
	return (CTime)NULL;
}

Posted 14-Jan-18 1:16am

Michael Haephrati

Updated 14-Jan-18 22:23pm

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Richard MacCutchan 14-Jan-18 7:50am

What is the actual string that you are passing in, and have you checked GetLastError() to see if that gives any further clues?

Richard MacCutchan 14-Jan-18 7:54am

Also, I do not see a constructor in CTime Class | Microsoft Docs[^] that takes a COleDateTime value.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2018-01-14T22:22:00

The call of ParseDateTime should work for valid date string. A reason for problems could be that your locale settings on your computer arent fitting to that date format. Check that - maybe fix it with additional parameter to ParseDateTime.

Or is it another problem from the input parameter or the CTime conversion constructor?