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

Example: 5:42:12 PM

21 Answers

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:

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Try this:

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

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

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Another option using String.Format()

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

or

DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()

Here we go:

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

just Try It's use full to your Need

This will be better, Try This one

 DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();

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

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

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.

This can be a possible solution:

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

I think this code will solve your problem

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm")
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var CurDate= DateTime.Now; CurDate.Hour; CurDate.Minute; CurDate.Millisecond

To calculate the current datetime:

DateTime theDate = DateTime.UtcNow; string custom = theDate.ToString("d"); MessageBox.Show(custom);

I'm experimenting with this also and find these pages helpful as well. First the main class... (v=vs.110).aspx

Now some specifier formats for the ToString method... (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

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...

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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

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

Use the code below

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

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.

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