Re: Get the system date and time format string

Here's what I use... you can modify to suit the format you want:

//
// Format a date in the locale convention, short format. If tm is 0 the
current date is returned.
//
CString NLSDateFormat(CTime tm)
{
     SYSTEMTIME systime;
     if (tm == 0) {
          // get the current time
          GetSystemTime(&systime);
     }
     else {
          // convert the CTime
          tm.GetAsSystemTime(systime);
     }

     int size;
     CString cs;
     size = ::GetDateFormat(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DATE_SHORTDATE, &systime,
NULL, NULL, 0);
     ::GetDateFormat(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DATE_SHORTDATE, &systime, NULL,
cs.GetBuffer(size), size);
     cs.ReleaseBuffer();
     return cs;
}

Tom

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