How do you get the current time of day?

Question

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

Example: 5:42:12 PM

Alli

Answer 1

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

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

DateTime reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime

Skatole

DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() does the same as the second suggestion. – Hospital

well, almost the same, it returns a string but is missing the seconds portion of the time. – Hospital

.ToString("HH:mm:ss tt") would give you 17:42:12 PM, while .ToString("h:mm:ss tt") gives you 5:42:12 PM. – Millenary

@Kyle - not quite accurate. ToShortTimeString returns the time in the user's selected short time format, as specified in the region settings of Windows. – Bathrobe

Answer 2

Try this:

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss tt");

For other formats, you can check this site: C# DateTime Format

Gemeinschaft

Answer 3

Another option using String.Format()

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

Dire

Answer 4

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)

Oringa

After reading the question again, I think you are not wrong. But I am not wrong either because if this is a general question as you propose, then most of the answerers have misunderstood the question since their answers are not general but specific. All in all, I think the question could have been much clearer. By the way, what does "I undid your -1's" mean? – Bedrock

Had there not be any misundestandings they would have put all versions not something that comes first on mind. We all know that SO is very generous to people who try hard to answer. But yeah, let's not deviate from the topic much. All I can say is that I will review all my -1's and decide again. – Bedrock

Answer 5

DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay

or

DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()

Wooldridge

Answer 6

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd h:mm:ss tt");

just Try It's use full to your Need

Cohosh

Answer 7

Here we go:

 DateTime time = DateTime.Now;
 Console.WriteLine(time.ToString("h:mm:ss tt"));

Zoologist

The t in time should be capitalized. Fixed it for your. – Inculcate

Answer 8

This will be better, Try This one

    DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();

For this you don't need to specify the Format for the Time.

Ingratitude

Answer 9

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

Almonry

Answer 10

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.

Leuctra

Answer 11

I think this code will solve your problem

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm")

Allynallys

The ToString method has already been covered by several other solutions. In addition, this also does not capture seconds or AM/PM time. – Gujarati

Answer 12

This can be a possible solution:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string time = now.ToString("T");

Eventide

Answer 13

var CurDate= DateTime.Now;
CurDate.Hour;
CurDate.Minute;
CurDate.Millisecond

Mountebank

Answer 14

To calculate the current datetime:

DateTime theDate = DateTime.UtcNow;

string custom = theDate.ToString("d");

MessageBox.Show(custom);

Intort

Answer 15

MyEmail.Body = string.Format("The validation is done at {0:HH:mm:ss} Hrs.",DateTime.Now);

Can Use {0:HH:mm:ss}, {0:HH:mm:ss.fff}, {0:DD/mm/yyy HH:mm:ss}, etc...

Brazier

Answer 16

I'm experimenting with this also and find these pages helpful as well. First the main class... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime(v=vs.110).aspx

Now some specifier formats for the ToString method... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo(v=vs.110).aspx

Example:

using System;

namespace JD
{
    class Program
    {
        public static DateTime get_UTCNow()
        {
            DateTime UTCNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
            int year = UTCNow.Year;
            int month = UTCNow.Month;
            int day = UTCNow.Day;
            int hour = UTCNow.Hour;
            int min = UTCNow.Minute;
            int sec = UTCNow.Second;
            DateTime datetime = new DateTime(year, month, day, hour, min, sec);
            return datetime;
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            DateTime datetime = get_UTCNow();            

            string time_UTC = datetime.TimeOfDay.ToString();
            Console.WriteLine(time_UTC);

            Console.ReadLine();

        }
    }
}

I threw that TimeOfDay method in there just to show that you get a default of 24 hour time as is stated "the time from midnight"

You may use my geter method(); :-D

Knott

Answer 17

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

Molotov

no need to use ToString() on strings :D – Ial

Answer 18

very simple DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss tt")

Acquittance

Answer 19

Use the code below

DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss tt")

Prairial

How does this differ from the highest voted answer? – Toothwort

Answer 20

In my case I have used the below code to get time alone from DateTime.

var currentDateTime = DateTime.Now; 
var currentTimeAlone = new TimeSpan(currentDateTime.Hour, currentDateTime.Minute,    currentDateTime.Second); 
Console.WriteLine(currentTimeAlone);

Hope it helps for someone. :)

Salazar

Answer 21

Try this one. Its working for me in 3tier Architecture Web Application.

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

Please remember the Single Quotes in the insert Query.

For example:

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.

Calabash