is there a class that show the system time

Hi


Is there a way to show system time in VB? i don't want it to show just the time at one instence i need it so that it will update every sec.


I know you can use the microsoft com object to do that
but i wanted to know with VB can do that itself.

if VB can do it can you show me some code plz.

thks in Advance

Put a Timer control on your form, set its Interval property to 1000 (1 second), place a label on the form and in the Timer event of the Timer control put the following code:

VB Code:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    
    Label1.Caption = Time
    
End Sub

When u say Label1.captions = time


do u mean label1.text = system time???

cos i don't think i can find captions in a labels
and Time ??

Do u mean time like this

Dim Time as DateTime

Time.now.Toshortdaystring()


And if i do what u said will that runs in the background of other process cos i need it to do others things while the clock is ticking

The clock should never stop until the program stop

Label1.caption = Time


Time is a keyword in VB that will return the system time. If you want the date you can say Date as the Keyword.

Now keyword will display both time and date as one string

'Copy this to your project And Read The Above instructions

VB Code:

'Add A Timer Control To The form and a label control
 
'set the timer controls interval in the properties window to 1000
'Then Run it
 
Private Sub Timer1_timer()
 
      Label1.caption = time
 
end Sub

Caption is a property of Label controls and Time is a VB function that returns the current system time.

The Timer control will continue to run as long as your program is running. The Timer control is not extremely accurate, but unless you want to measure time in milli-seconds it should suffice.

exactly that


but the only problem is that in VB.net

TIME don't exist unless u declared it I think ^^

but i know there a dateTime in VB.net

Sorry. I didn't realise you were talking about VB.NET.

Try posting your question on the VB.Net forum.

Oh sorry


Try posting in the .Net forum for VB you should get a decent response :) :) :)