Getting the day of when an order was open

[Nicholas Syiek]

Hello,

I am trying to make a simple panel that will allow me to see the open trades taken today, but I can't seem to find code to do this. How can I determine the day a trade was opened, assuming it is still an open trade and in the terminal. I know I can use OrderOpenTime() to get the full date/time that the trade was opened on, but I'm looking to isolate only the day. Is this something we can do?

Thanks for the help.

[Marco vd Heijden]

yes MQL4 or MQL5 ?

[Nicholas Syiek]

Marco vd Heijden:
yes MQL4 or MQL5 ?

MQL4, sorry, didn't specify

[Marco vd Heijden]

Hello you can take the OrderOpenTime(), and then compare it with the desired target timing interval by using one of the following functions:

https://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime

Function	Action
TimeCurrent	Returns the last known server time (time of the last quote receipt) in the datetime format
TimeLocal	Returns the local computer time in datetime format
TimeGMT	Returns GMT in datetime format with the Daylight Saving Time by local time of the computer, where the client terminal is running
TimeDaylightSavings	Returns the sign of Daylight Saving Time switch
TimeGMTOffset	Returns the current difference between GMT time and the local computer time in seconds, taking into account DST switch
TimeToStruct	Converts a datetime value into a variable of MqlDateTime structure type
StructToTime	Converts a variable of MqlDateTime structure type into a datetime value
Day	Returns the current day of the month, i.e., the day of month of the last known server time
DayOfWeek	Returns the current zero-based day of the week of the last known server time
DayOfYear	Returns the current day of the year i.e., the day of year of the last known server time
Hour	Returns the hour of the last known server time by the moment of the program start
Minute	Returns the current minute of the last known server time by the moment of the program start
Month	Returns the current month as number, i.e., the number of month of the last known server time
Seconds	Returns the amount of seconds elapsed from the beginning of the current minute of the last known server time by the moment of the program start
TimeDay	Returns the day of month of the specified date
TimeDayOfWeek	Returns the zero-based day of week of the specified date
TimeDayOfYear	Returns the day of year of the specified date
TimeHour	Returns the hour of the specified time
TimeMinute	Returns the minute of the specified time
TimeMonth	Returns the month number of the specified time
TimeSeconds	Returns the amount of seconds elapsed from the beginning of the minute of the specified time
TimeYear	Returns year of the specified date
Year	Returns the current year, i.e., the year of the last known server time

[nicholish en]

#include <Tools\DateTime.mqh>
void OnStart()
{
   CDateTime time;
   time.DateTime(TimeCurrent());
   Print(time.DayName());
   Print(time.day);
   Print(time.day_of_week);
   Print(time.day_of_year);
}