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JohnD
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Timestamp file name

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I have a feature where my app auto-saves a screen-grab. I want to name it with a prefix (user-name), then a timestamp string which would mean sorting files by name would put them in the right time-order... e.g year/month/day/hour/min/sec.

It seems pretty likely wx has something like this I can just use... I found this code which works but would rather not reinvent the wheel

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        struct tm *pTime;
        time_t ctTime; time(&ctTime);
        pTime = localtime( &ctTime );
        std::ostringstream oss;
        oss	<< std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << (pTime->tm_mon + 1)
            << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << pTime->tm_mday
            << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << (pTime->tm_year + 1900)
            << "_" << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << pTime->tm_hour
            << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << pTime->tm_min
            << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << pTime->tm_sec
            << std::setw(3) << std::setfill('0') << (mTimer->getMilliseconds() % 1000);
Last edited by JohnD on Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Timetamp file name

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wxString filename = wxString::Format( wxT("file_%s.txt"), wxDateTime::Now().Format(wxT("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")) );
For the documentation of the wxDateTime::Format() parameters:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clib ... /strftime/
Use the source, Luke!
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