How to display the current time and date in C

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How do you display the current date and time in a label in c

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labelName Text   DateTime Now ToString  dddd   MMM dd yyyy hh mm ss      Output

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You d need to set the label s text property to DateTime Now   labelName Text   DateTime Now ToString      You can format it in a variety of ways by handing ToString   a format string in the form of  MM DD YYYY  and the like   Google Date-format strings

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DateTime Now Tostring        You can supply parameters to To string function in a lot of ways like given in this link http   www geekzilla co uk View00FF7904-B510-468C-A2C8-F859AA20581F htm  This will be a lot useful  If you reside somewhere else than the regular format  MM dd yyyy   use always MM not mm  mm gives minutes and MM gives month

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For time   label1 Text   DateTime Now ToString  HH mm ss      result 22 11 45   or  label1 Text   DateTime Now ToString  hh mm ss tt      result 11 11 45 PM   For date   label1 Text   DateTime Now ToShortDateString      30 5 2012

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If you want to do it in XAML    xmlns sys  clr-namespace System assembly mscorlib   lt TextBlock Text   Binding Source  x Static sys DateTime Now      With some formatting    lt TextBlock Text   Binding Source  x Static sys DateTime Now                     StringFormat     0 dd-MMM-yyyy hh mm ss

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The System DateTime class has a property called Now  which      Gets a DateTime object that is set to the current date and time on this computer  expressed as the local time    You can set the Text property of your label to the current time like this  where myLabel is the name of your label    myLabel Text   DateTime Now ToString

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In WPF you ll need to use the Content property instead    label1 Content   DateTime Now ToString

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label1 Text   DateTime Now ToLongTimeString     its for current date  label1 Text   DateTime Now ToLongDateString     its for current time

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