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GetLocalTime in VC++

Hello all -

In VC++, the GetLocalTime() function - is there any way to break up the hours or minutes into their individual int components.

Ex: st.wHour may equal 12... and st.wMinute may equal 23.

I want to return in the wHour the 1 as one variable and the 2 as another.

In the wMinute return the 2 and the 3 as two seperate int variables.

and if it was 1:02 return (0 and 1 for hour) and (0 and 2 for minutes)

Thanks for trying to help!

kuchnaheen

i suggested using following combintion of functions at ur other question...

GetLocalTime(&st)
GetDateFormat(0,DATE_SHORTDATE,&st,NULL,date,sizeof(date));
GetTimeFormat(0,LOCALE_NOUSEROVERRIDE,&st,NULL,time,sizeof(time));

after getting the time in chraracter string it is really easy to exract the individual values...u can use strtok on ':' or even can use CString for the purpose...

let me know if u need the code...

salibes

ASKER

Thank you so much. I do need the code if you don't mind because I'm not exactly sure how to extract the values. I really appreciate it.

salibes

ASKER

Thank you so much. I do need the code if you don't mind because I'm not exactly sure how to extract the values. I really appreciate it.

kuchnaheen

okay with strtok u will go something like

this is how will u get hours n minutes out of the string...
SYSTEMTIME st;
char time[20];
char *token;
int hms[3];
int count =0;
char AMPM[3];
this is what i do to make sure that locl variables dont mess

memset(time,0,20);
memset(AMPM,0,3);
get the local time
GetLocalTime(&st);
GetTimeFormat(0,LOCALE_NOUSEROVERRIDE,&st,NULL,time,sizeof(time));

//tokenize the time string

token = strtok( time, " :" );
while( token != NULL )
{
if(count<3)
{
hms[count]=atoi(token);
cout<<hms[count]<<endl;
}
else
{
strcpy(AMPM,token);
cout<<AMPM;
}
//increase the count
count++;
// Get next token
token = strtok( NULL, " :" );
}

continuous

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salibes

ASKER

OH!

Thank you so much for all your help. That last division post did it. I owe you one. Let me know if the grade came out alright.

Thanks again,
salibes

kuchnaheen

ignore my first n second cooment....they have nothing to do with ur problem...the code i have given in second comment is rather a silly effort as u can have hours n minutes directlyy from systime struct...the only thing it gives u is the AM/PM solution .... but this problem can be easily solved bu other means ... no need of this string manipulation...

kuchnaheen

okayyyyy...thanx

the grade is alrihght...there is nothing above A;)