Re: Difference in Time

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:34:20 GMT
Message-ID:
<M6xQh.4900$u03.4746@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net>
Also keep in mind that the maximume number of days for a timer is 49.71.
SetTimer takes a UINT for milliseconds, max value of 4,294,967,295.
There are 604,800,000 milliseconds in a week there for you can set a timer
for 7.101 weeks from today.

AliR.

"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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If I may suggest a different approach.
You can always set up a timer that every minute or so checks to see if one
of the tasks times is the current time. (Unless you need it to start right
at 8:00:00pm and not 8:00:35pm).

To get the number of seconds for a timer period you can always do this

COleDateTime TrigerTime(Year,Month,Day,Hour,Minutes,Sec);
COleDateTimeSpan Span = TrigerTime - COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime();

double Seconds = Span.GetTotalSeconds();

AliR.

"Trecius" <Trecius@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello, Newsgroupians:

I've a question regarding time.

I am creating an application that works much like the old Task Scheduler.
I
have a specific time I want to do an action. For example, every Sunday
at
8:00 PM, I want to do my action. My approach is to simply create a
thread
and have it ::WaitForSingleObject on a waitable timer. The only problem
I'm
having is how can I determine the number of seconds between NOW and the
next
Sunday at 8:00 PM? Thank you.

Trecius

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