How can i display date and time in a field with date type

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How can i display the current date and time in a field with date type. I can show the current date with today() but how can i display the current time. Furthermore i want display these two in one field.

Thanks for every help. Felix

Did you try `Now()` instead? Today only returns the date, Now returns current date and time. — Matthew Verstraete, Aug 10 '16 at 13:09

DAXaholic · Answer 1 · 2016-08-10T17:29:20.653

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I am afraid that is not possible as a field of type date holds just that - the date. Use type utcdatetime and the appropriate control UtcDateTimeEdit to show dates & times in one control.

To retrieve the current date & time you can call DateTimeUtil::utcNow() to which you may want to apply the local time zone via DateTimeUtil::applyTimeZoneOffset

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answered Aug 10 '16 at 16:56

DAXaholic

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Can you explane who i do that. – Felix Schneider Aug 11 '16 at 07:11
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What exactly is unclear to you? Maybe you want to show some of your code etc. with which you have problems converting it to utcdatetime – DAXaholic Aug 12 '16 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '16 at 17:03

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Try this:

utcDateTime _utcDateTime;
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_utcDateTime = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime();

Then you can extract separately the date and the time if you want.

answered Aug 10 '16 at 17:03

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Thanks for this idea, but i want show the date and the time in a field with date type. Thus the types are incompatible. I think I have to change the field again if I want to display both... – Felix Schneider Aug 11 '16 at 07:08
Try this to extract the date by date field, and time in str utcDateTime _utcDateTime; date _date; TimeOfDay _hour; int _min, _sec; str _Hourstr; ; _utcDateTime = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime(); _Date = DateTimeUtil::date(_utcDateTime); //Date _hour = DateTimeUtil::time(_utcDateTime); _hour = _hour /60; _hour = _hour /60; _min = DateTimeUtil::minute(_utcDateTime); _sec = DateTimeUtil::second(_utcDateTime); _Hourstr = int2str(_hour) + ":" + int2str(_min) + ":" + int2str(_Sec); //Hour – Jonathan Bravetti Aug 11 '16 at 12:04

How can i display date and time in a field with date type

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