Date Time Question, Can the PC return different format?

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Hi All,

I need the current time of some tests so I was using

VB

Time = DateAndTime.Now.ToString
TimeOnly = Time.Substring(11, 5)

To get the time only as I don't need the date in this part, this works fine here but on the customer system it appears that 10:09 becomes 0:09 does DateAndTime works from the PC Windows time, doesn't it(?), could I be trimming too early in the substring ?
Glenn

Posted 28-Apr-14 5:45am

glennPattonWork3

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Apr-14 11:55am

What's wrong with reading standard MSDN documentation?
—SA

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Solution 2

You don't need to trim anything. You just need to work with data itself, not string representing data.
Please see, look at the properties: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx[^].

This is where you can extract time only.

And you can control the formatting of time as string the way you want. Look at all System.DateTime.ToString methods. The format can be custom, depend on culture or system settings, and so on.

See also format specifiers:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1(v=vs.110).aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 28-Apr-14 5:56am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Manas Bhardwaj 28-Apr-14 11:58am

Right. MSDN documentation should be the first place before asking question anywhere. +5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Apr-14 13:11pm

Thank you, Manas.
—SA

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Manas Bhardwaj · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-28T05:50:00

Solution 1

I would not do string operations but something like this:

var result = string.Format("{0}:{1}", DateTime.Now.Hour, DateTime.Now.Minute);

Posted 28-Apr-14 5:50am

Manas Bhardwaj

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glennPattonWork3 28-Apr-14 11:52am

Thanks I will give it a go!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Apr-14 13:12pm

Yes, something like this; a 5.
—SA