Formatting Time Values: General-Purpose Classes

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The following procedure shows how to format time values.

To format a string representation of a time or elapsed time

  • Use the Format member function from either the or classes to create a character string representation of the time or elapsed time, as shown by the following example.

    CTime t( 1991, 3, 19, 22, 15, 0 );
// 10:15PM March 19, 1991

CString s = t.Format( "%A, %B %d, %Y" );
// s == "Tuesday, March 19, 1991"

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