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

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

Answer 2

Try this:

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

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

Answer 3

Another option using String.Format()

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

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)

Answer 5

DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay

or

DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()

Answer 6

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

just Try It's use full to your Need

Answer 7

Here we go:

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

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.

Answer 9

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

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.

Answer 11

I think this code will solve your problem

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

Answer 12

This can be a possible solution:

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

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

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...

Answer 15

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

Answer 16

To calculate the current datetime:

DateTime theDate = DateTime.UtcNow;

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

MessageBox.Show(custom);

Answer 17

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

Answer 18

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

Answer 19

Use the code below

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

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. :)

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.