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how to make delphi timetostr return military time

I'm working on a legacy Delphi 7 program. When I call

timetostr(now)

I get a time string in 12 hour format complete with the 'AM' or 'PM' trailer.

I looked in help doc in the Delphi 7 and did a search on the internet. The results were kind of vague.

Solution

  • According to Wikipedia Military Time is the regular 24 hour clock.

    In order to display that in Delphi you can use FormatTime. To be precise: 

    FormatTime('hh:mm:ss', now)

    If you want milliseconds as well then 

    FormatTime('hh:mm:ss.zzz', now)