Formatting date and time

[credetarud]

Hi,

I have an MQ4 indicator that formats date and time like this:

26.10.2023 - 09:11:45

using this code:

// This will take broker time and turn it into format DD.MM.YYY
string GetTime(datetime when=0)
{
   if( when==0) when=TimeCurrent();
   return StringFormat("%02d.%02d.%04d - %02d:%02d:%02d", TimeToString(TimeCurrent(),TIME, TimeMonth(when), TimeYear(when), TimeHour(when), TimeMinute(when), TimeSeconds(when) );
}

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I've done some searching and can't find any example of how to do this using mq5. Can anyone assist?

Thank you!

[Fernando Carreiro]

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[Fernando Carreiro]

credetarud: I have an MQ4 indicator that formats date and time like this: 26.10.2023 - 09:11:45. I've done some searching and can't find any example of how to do this using mq5. Can anyone assist?

Please study the MQL5 documentation for the following Time and Date function ...

TimeToStruct

Converts a datetime value into a variable of MqlDateTime structure type

Also study the following article ...

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