C#: How do you get the current time of day?

Question

C#: How do you get the current time (not date AND time)?

Example: 5:42:12 PM

Answer 1

DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay gives it to you as a TimeSpan (from midnight).

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss tt") gives it to you as a string.

Answer 2

Get the current date and time, then just use the time portion of it. Look at the possibilities for formatting a date time string in the MSDN docs.

Answer 3

datetime.TimeOfDay returns a TimeSpan and might be what you are looking for.

Answer 4

DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay

or

DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()

Answer 5

Get the current date and time, then just use the time portion of it.

The Date is the time. Internally things get counted as 'number of seconds since some point in time' which I think is Midnight, 1 January, 1600, or something like that.

Answer 6

Current time with AM/PM designator:

DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss tt", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss.fff tt", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)

Current time using 0-23 hour notation:

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss.fff", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)

Answer 7

This will show you only the current time, in 24 hour format:

class Program
{
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
  Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString().ToString());
  Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString().ToString());
  Console.ReadLine();
 }
}

Regards
K

Answer 8

Another option using String.Format()

string.Format("{0:HH:mm:ss tt}", DateTime.Now)

Answer 9

By the way, I want the same data but in DateTime type, cause this is all for strings right?

Answer 10

Hi guys,

Try this one. Its working for me in 3tier Architecture Web Application. :) (But No use here)

'" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "'

Please remember the Single Quotes in the insert Query.

For example see my example Insertion.

    string Command = @"Insert Into CONFIG_USERS(smallint_empID,smallint_userID,str_username,str_pwd,str_secquestion,str_secanswer,tinyint_roleID,str_phone,str_email,Dt_createdOn,Dt_modifiedOn) values (" + u.Employees + "," + u.UserID + ",'" + u.Username + "','" + u.GetPassword() + "','" + u.SecQ + "','" + u.SecA + "'," + u.RoleID + ",'" + u.Phone + "','" + u.Email + "','" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "','" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "')";

The DateTime insertion at the end of the line.

Let me know how it is working in your Web apps... ?

Regards

Albert A Albs

Answer 11

How can we get the datetime from internet using a webservice. Does anyone know of any such webservice?

Answer 12

Excuse me but what type of namespace should I pick to have the compiler recognize "Datetime" and deal with that.

I have tested out : Using System.Datetime; It's not working