serialize COleDateTime

[wythor]

i would like to know if i could serialize a COleDateTime value and retrieve it later.
Thanks

[Jack Qin]

Hi,please try like this:

COleDateTime date(2000,9,21,16,0,0);
COleVariant vaTimeDate=date;
COleVariant vaTemp;
vaTemp.ChangeType(VT_BSTR,&vaTimeDate);
CString str=vaTemp.bstrVal;



Hope it helps,
Jack

[wythor]

can i serialize it without changing to the cstring format?
e.g

COleDateTime time = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime();
CArchive ar(&somefile, CArchive::modeCreate + CArchive::modeWrite);
ar << time;




I tried using this and then retrieving it later but the value that i put in was different when i retrieve it.

[Squashua]

Try serializing the underlying DATE member (m_dt) inside of COleDateTime.

[VictorN]

Good reply to a 17-years old question!