Get System Time

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14 April, 2011 - 11:23
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Mohamad Azhar Ina...
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Get System Time

Hi,
I was looking if there's a way to get the phone's current time and date, but could not find a way.

All i found was total no of seconds passed from 00:00:00 1st jan 1970 using maTime() from matime.h.

And second thing is maGetMilliSecondCount() which returns no. of seconds from unknown point of time(don't know what it returns exactly).

Also the Mosync API Reference http://www.mosync.com/files/imports/doxygen/latest/html/index.html specifies Time and date column but the methods given besides it are no where returning the date.

Can sum1 help?

Thanks & Regards.

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14 April, 2011 - 11:38
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Sam Pickard
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Hi, you've got the time and date with maTime() and maLocalTime(), because it is a number you can easily tell if one datetime is before or after another. You can have dates before 1st Jan 1970 by having a negative number. This is how C and UNIX process times. This is called UNIX time.

You can convert the number into a string using sprint_time, or format it yourself by splitting it into a tm struct

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14 April, 2011 - 22:48
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Maybe you could use something like this for the time:

DateTime time;
DateTime timestamp;

timestamp = time.now();
int hour = timestamp.getHour();
int minute = timestamp.getMinute();
int second = timestamp.getSecond();
char timeNow[8];
sprintf(timeNow, "%i:%i:%i", hour, minute, second);

You have to include the library and add MAP.lib to your project.

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19 April, 2011 - 06:28
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Got it working. Thanks a lot Sam.

Posting the code for someone in need like me..............

                struct tm * tim_p = new tm;
		split_time(maTime(), tim_p);
		printf("system hour is %d ", tim_p->tm_hour);
		printf("system min is %d ", tim_p->tm_min);
		printf("system sec is %d ", tim_p->tm_sec);
		printf("Daylight Saving Time flag %d ", tim_p->tm_isdst);
		printf("Day of the month %d ", tim_p->tm_mday);
		printf("Months since January %d ", tim_p->tm_mon);
		printf("Days since Sunday %d ", tim_p->tm_wday);
		printf("Days since January 1 %d ", tim_p->tm_yday);
		printf("Years since 1900 %d ", tim_p->tm_year);

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21 December, 2011 - 17:14
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Is there a way to get more precision from maTime, for example, to milliseconds, or better to microsecond? Or an alternative? Thanks.

Paul.

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21 December, 2011 - 17:49
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I found maGetMilliSecondCount that may do what I need (haven't tested it yet). Paul.

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