Show current date and time in real time....

[laroberts]

I am looking for a way to display the current time and date in real time on my forms on a label. Can somebody show me the exact code to do this?

 

Thank you

[kejpa]

use a timer and set the labels text when the timer ticks.

 

hth

/kejpa

 

(today in all lower case ;))

[laroberts]

???

 

Yes but how will that get the correct time to display?

 

Also do you have a code example?

 

Thank you

[jmcilhinney]

Add a System.Windows.Forms.Timer to your form, in design view, called Timer1. Add a Label to your form called Label1. Set the Timer Interval to 1000 (milliseconds) and Enabled to True. Double-click the Timer to create a handler for the default event, which is Tick. In the event handler put this line of code:

Me.Label1.Text = Date.Now.ToLongTimeString()

The Date type also supports ToShortTimeString and ToString with format information.