dateformat example

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Cor

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• Nov 9, 2010

• #1

Can you give an example how to show the following in a datetime.dateformat

datetime.dateformat("dd/MM/yyy ?????")

activity.Title=DateTime.Add(DateTime.Now,0,0,1) ;

grCor

 

Erel

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• Nov 9, 2010

• #2

DateTime.DateFormat is a property, not a method.

The box icon represents properties. If it were a method the first line in the description, which is the signature line, would have included a parameter.

So your code should be:

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DateTime.DateFormat = "..."

 

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• Nov 9, 2010

• #3

the following shows only numbers in title

or am i missing something

DateTime.DateFormat="dd/MM/yyyy"
activity.Title=DateTime.Add(DateTime.Now,0,0,1)

grCor

 

Erel

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• Nov 9, 2010

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Add returns the time as ticks (milliseconds since 1970). The date string representation can be returned with the Date method:

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activity.Title= DateTime.Date(DateTime.Add(DateTime.Now,0,0,1))

 

klaus

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• Nov 9, 2010

• #5

What do you want to display in the title line ?

If you want to display the current date you should use this:
Activity.Title=DateTime.Date(DateTime.Now)

If you want to diplay the current date and time you should use this:
Activity.Title=DateTime.Date(DateTime.Now)&" "&DateTime.Time(DateTime.Now)

If you want to the date of tomorrow you should use this:
Activity.Title=DateTime.Date(DateTime.Add(DateTime.Now,0,0,1))

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derez

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• Nov 21, 2010

• #6

I have a strange phenomena. I use this

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datetime.time(DateTime.Now-stopwatch_start)

to show time pass from the second I press a button which allocates the value datetime.now to stopwatch_start (as int), while the program runs in cycles by a timer.

The first value that I get is 01:56:28 instead of 0 or 1 second.

Are the ticks not integers ?

 

Erel

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• Nov 21, 2010

• #7

You should declare the variable as Long not Int. An Int cannot hold this amount of ticks.