print system date and hour how?

# 1 08-03-2006 , 04:35 AM

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what code I use to print actual date and hour of system?

using this same thread, I want to ask what is the best way to store large amount of text strings, where do I can store it?

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# 2 25-03-2006 , 02:09 PM

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You can write you text strings out to a file, look at fwrite, fread etc.

As for the date and time, i don't know.

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# 3 27-03-2006 , 12:26 PM

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Judging by what I see in the Maya MEL reference library, (or maybe I should say by what I DON'T see), if you want date and time, you will need to write a plug-in to do it . . .

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# 4 27-03-2006 , 04:28 PM

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not sure about windows but on linux you can do this:

system("date");

//Result: Mon Mar 27 17:26:46 BST 2006

and then parse the string. If you can find a windows DOS command that will return the date then do the same thing in windows and it shoud work. No need for a plugin.

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# 5 27-03-2006 , 07:22 PM

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If you run that in windows you get:

system("date");

// Result: The current date is: Mon 03/27/2006
Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) //

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# 6 27-03-2006 , 07:36 PM

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You *might* be able to get away with this:

system("time/T");

system("date/T");

// Result: 12:22p

// Result: Mon 03/27/2006

but your best bet, if you are looking for just the result to be displayed is do it like this:

string $d = `system("date/T")`;
string $t = `system("time/T")`;

then do the necessary string extraction which I am to lazy to spend the time to write for you . . . . you can find the string manipulation commands in the Maya library, and it is good practice, as you will use them a lot, if you do much coding.

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