Displaying System Time in Text Box

Displaying System Time in Text Box

• gifa

  Hi thanks but I know about DateTime.Now and have tried to use it but it will not display within the text box, I'm looking for someone to show me the full piece of code please so I can see what I'm doing wrong.

  Many thanks

  
  

• AJAX HAL

  DateTime.Now will tell you the time on the local machine. You can then call one of a number of methods to format that as a string.

  
  
  

• raxe

  Just reiterating what cgraus had said.

  Drop a timer control on a form called timer1 and the following code will cause the textbox to become a clock, updating every second.

  Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
  Textbox1.Text = Now.ToLongTimeString
  End Sub

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
  Timer1.Interval = 1000
  Timer1.Start()
  End Sub
  End Class
  

  
  

• LV_DP

  Many thanks I have tried all of the answers in this thread and can get them to do what I want in one form or another so thank you all very much for your replies.
  

• jayson.gm.ds2.ci.ftsp

  Hi,

  Try this:

  Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

  TextBox1.Text = CStr(Now)

  End Sub

  End Class

  Ron

  
  

• derekyeong

  Textbox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()

  I suspect you know that too ( I certainly said it in my original reply ). Is the problem that you want to show the ONGOING time If so, you need to set a timer, which you can do by dragging it onto your form, and then in it's tick event, do the above. You need to set it's interval to be < 1000 to make sure it updates at least once a second, I'd go for 500.

  
  
  

• ScaryJerry

  If none of that is working, import system and system.io
  
  
  
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