How can I get the current time in C#?

Question

I need to get the current time in C# but when I create a DateTime object, the time is set to 00:00:00.

How can I get the current instance of time?

possible duplication of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296920/how-do-you-get-the-current-time-of-day — hkutluay, Apr 29 '12 at 17:12
'DateTime itself is a datastructure to work with dates and times. 'DateTime.Now returns the current time. — Willem Van Onsem, Apr 29 '12 at 17:13

Farhad-Taran · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-29T19:43:38.130

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DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss tt");

this gives it to you as a string.

edited Apr 29 '12 at 19:43

answered Apr 29 '12 at 17:09

Farhad-Taran

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For date and time use `DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");` – Eun Aug 07 '13 at 09:10

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '12 at 17:08

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DateTime.Now is what you're searching for...

answered Apr 29 '12 at 17:08

Tigran

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 06 '14 at 06:27

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DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString().ToString()

This Will give you DateTime as 10:50PM

edited Jan 06 '14 at 06:27

answered Apr 29 '12 at 17:19

Kishore Kumar

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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try this:

 string.Format("{0:HH:mm:ss tt}", DateTime.Now);

for further details you can check it out : How do you get the current time of day?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

Community

answered Apr 29 '12 at 17:21

Jignesh Rajput

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