Displaying actual time in a form?

Here's much more elegant way to format datetime to string:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

             //gets the short time format
            string shortTime = now.ToShortTimeString();
            //gets your special time format, more info
            //http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconstandarddatetimeformatstrings.asp
            string specialTime = now.ToString("hh:mm:ss");
            //gets the long datetime format corresponding to your locality settings
            string localizedDateTime = now.ToString( System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture);

            Console.WriteLine(shortTime);
            Console.WriteLine(specialTime);
            Console.WriteLine(localizedDateTime);
        }
    }
}

Much more formatting options awailable in DateTime class...

Thank you very much for your replies. I will try them later today but I am sure this is what I am looking for.
This site is great, I really appreciate your help.

Forgive me if I ask any more 'dumb' questions. But self learning C is not as easy as it would seem. There is an overload of information on the web and it is easy to get lost and confused.

When searching for info I always get thousands of hits, really hard to sort thru.

Thanks again,

Gabriel

public string GetTime()

string TimeInString = "";

// Get current time

int hour = DateTime.Now.Hour;

int min = DateTime.Now.Minute;

int sec = DateTime.Now.Second;

// Format current time into string

return TimeInString;

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

if( sender == timer1 )