i am writing a program that i need to check the date, and return it as a value. does anyone know what i should do to make it read the date? i dont know where i would tell it to look. thanks.
i am writing a program that i need to check the date, and return it as a value. does anyone know what i should do to make it read the date? i dont know where i would tell it to look. thanks.
Look up some of the functions in time.h
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You may think that the answer to this should be REALLY easy, and I suppose I could make a very easy answer - but I prefer to give you GOOD help rather than EASY FOR ME help.
Besides getting the current date/time, what do you want to do with it? Just print it, or do some calculations or some such?
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Mats
i want to write a program to tell me the date every time i start the comp. i can make it autorun, but i just need to figure out how to make it tell me the date. and ty, i will look up time.h. any more help is appreciated
What's wrong with this batch file?
--Code:// file: timedate.bat date < NUL: >> mytimestamp.txt time < NUL: >> mytimestamp.txt
Mats
I'm not sure what the purpose of the < NUL: is, but a better version (without the Enter new Date prompts) is:
You can also check the System Event Log to see when the system starts & stops (i.e. check when the Event Log service starts & stops).Code:@ECHO OFF DATE /T >> C:\SystemStart.txt TIME /T >> C:\SystemStart.txt
The < NUL: is there to avoid the "enter new date" prompt - I didn't know that recent versions of Windows support an option to avoid that...Originally Posted by cpjust
NUL: is the same as /dev/null in Unix/Linux, that is, a device that just returns end of file when read and "eats" anything written to it without any further processing. So a good place to input nothingness and a good place to get rid of unwanted output.
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Mats
how can I check the username of the windows account that logged in?
So I can make a app of the time/date/username who logged into windows..
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724432.aspx
As per MSDN instructions, include Windows.h, and link with Advapi32.lib.
Call it with something like this:
Code:#include <Windows.h> ... char szUsername[256]; ... GetUserName(szUsername, sizeof(szUsername)); /* szUsername now contains the current Windows username */
