Date and Time Topics

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This article family describes how to use MFC for working with dates and times.

****Tip   ****For information about working with date and time data in alternative ways (C run-time library, Win32 API) see the overview.

What do you want to know more about?

• Working with the MFC date and time classes

• Using the system clock in my date and time data

• Working with date and time data in Automation

• Working with date and time data in database applications

• Calculating elapsed time (general-purpose classes)

• Calculating elapsed time (Automation classes)

• Formatting strings containing date and time data (general-purpose classes)

• Formatting strings containing date and time data (Automation classes)

• Classes CTime and CTimeSpan

• The SYSTEMTIME and FILETIME data types

• The DATE type

• Classes COleDateTime and COleDateTimeSpan