Date and Time

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MFC supports several different ways of working with dates and times. These include:

• General-purpose time classes. The CTime and CTimeSpan classes encapsulate most of the functionality associated with the ANSI-standard time library, which is declared in TIME.H.
  
  
• Support for system clock. With MFC version 3.0, support was added to CTime for the Win32 SYSTEMTIME and FILETIME data types.
  
  
• Support for the Automation DATE data type. DATE supports date, time, and date/time values. The COleDateTime and COleDateTimeSpan classes encapsulate this functionality. They work with the COleVariant class using Automation support.

For more information, see one or more of the following articles:

• Date and Time: General-Purpose Classes
  
  
• Date and Time: SYSTEMTIME Support
  
  
• Date and Time: Automation Support