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Get And Set The System Date And Time

C# code snippet that uses unmanaged code to retrieve the current date and time of the Windows operating system, and also sets it to the specified values.

 On Wednesday, April 23rd 2008 at 11:23 PM
By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)
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  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.ComponentModel;
  4. using System.Data;
  5. using System.Windows.Forms;
  6. using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
  7.  
  8. namespace Sample
  9. {
  10.     public partial class Form1 : Form
  11.     {
  12.         public Form1()
  13.         {
  14.             InitializeComponent();
  15.         }
  16.  
  17.         public struct SystemTime
  18.         {
  19.             public ushort Year;
  20.             public ushort Month;
  21.             public ushort DayOfWeek;
  22.             public ushort Day;
  23.             public ushort Hour;
  24.             public ushort Minute;
  25.             public ushort Second;
  26.             public ushort Millisecond;
  27.         };
  28.  
  29.         [DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "GetSystemTime", SetLastError = true)]
  30.         public extern static void Win32GetSystemTime(ref SystemTime sysTime);
  31.  
  32.         [DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetSystemTime", SetLastError = true)]
  33.         public extern static bool Win32SetSystemTime(ref SystemTime sysTime);
  34.  
  35.         private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  36.         {
  37.             // Set system date and time
  38.             SystemTime updatedTime = new SystemTime();
  39.             updatedTime.Year = (ushort)2008;
  40.             updatedTime.Month = (ushort)4;
  41.             updatedTime.Day = (ushort)23;
  42.             // UTC time; it will be modified according to the regional settings of the target computer so the actual hour might differ
  43.             updatedTime.Hour = (ushort)10;
  44.             updatedTime.Minute = (ushort)0;
  45.             updatedTime.Second = (ushort)0;
  46.             // Call the unmanaged function that sets the new date and time instantly
  47.             Win32SetSystemTime(ref updatedTime);
  48.  
  49.             // Retrieve the current system date and time
  50.             SystemTime currTime = new SystemTime();
  51.             Win32GetSystemTime(ref currTime);
  52.             // You can now use the struct to retrieve the date and time
  53.             MessageBox.Show("It's " + currTime.Hour + " o'clock. Do you know where your C# code is?");
  54.         }
  55.     }
  56. }
  57.  
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by Masud on Monday, July 14th 2008 at 07:00 AM

How can i get real system time?

by Ibrar on Tuesday, July 15th 2008 at 04:31 AM

Is there a way of getting system time in real time so that it runs like in its own thread. What ways are there to achieve this? It seems threads are the only way to go ...

by kasinathan on Tuesday, November 11th 2008 at 10:39 AM

hello !
any one can help me?
how can i get the system time only not date .. then i want to assign to the lable?

plz any one can help using c# ASP.net

by mahesh on Monday, June 29th 2009 at 08:06 PM

Hi, In this sample, which format the time display? When I am trying this at 9'o clock it shows 1. What is wrong. And one If you want show date please get the value from that structure.

by c on Thursday, August 20th 2009 at 02:51 AM

hi kasinathan

string str=DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
yourLable.Text=str;

by monali on Friday, September 4th 2009 at 02:51 PM

Hi all,
The code looks good but when I am trying to run that it is giving me error in hours. I mean when I give 1 in hr place its taking 5pm when I give 14 it taking 6 am and so on. Can any body help in where it is going wrong. I need that for my project.

thanks in advanse.

by Omid on Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 04:08 PM

hi
thats not work in windows 7 !!!
how we can do that ?

by Omid on Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 04:13 PM

hi
thats not work in windows 7 !!!
how we can do that ?

by Omid on Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 04:15 PM

hi
thats not work in windows 7 !!!
how we can do that ?

by Indi on Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 10:06 PM

This does not work properly, when system time is in the hour of 12:--PM

by Prithivi on Monday, April 26th 2010 at 11:46 AM

i want to retrieve the date from already stored in sqlserver database and subract retrieve date from today date in asp.net using c#.

by Neha on Thursday, May 13th 2010 at 02:34 AM

Hi,
I tried it. It just dispalays the output form without chnaging the system time. I have Vista installed on my system.

Does this work in windows vista??
Please help

by Mohsen on Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 03:45 AM

begir

by Amir Sayani on Saturday, December 25th 2010 at 01:51 AM

Not working in windows 7

by qBert on Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 02:34 AM

Hello,
I have windows 7 and this sample work fine. I have another prolem, i split "SystemTime" in 2 pieces (SystemTime and SystemData), i need toinsert 'Date' and 'Time' from textbox (or nomatter what)..and don't work. Guess that i mistake at the part. Can someone help me? tks

by Ronelsax on Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 03:04 PM

For those that are having problems setting the time (i.e. setting one hour and getting a different one), this means you have to either compensate your time zone (i.e. for PST-8 you'll have to subtract eight hours) or use the "GetLocalTime" and "SetLocalTime" unmanaged versions.

by Ronelsax on Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 03:04 PM

For those that are having problems setting the time (i.e. setting one hour and getting a different one), this means you have to either compensate your time zone (i.e. for PST-8 you'll have to subtract eight hours) or use the "GetLocalTime" and "SetLocalTime" unmanaged versions.

by kokul on Monday, July 25th 2011 at 05:13 AM

hi C
thank you very much.. you solved my problem relevant to get current time

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This is a great trick and I didn’t know you can use C# to obtain the info of your computer

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