Why is it always 1 january 1970??

Hey i have a question, i use a "date time picker" in my projekt and i works ok but for some time now it always show "1970-01-01" whenever i start my program, whats that about?? It's always todays date in the resource view and thats what i want it to be.

I remeber i've read somewere that there, supposedly, is something special with that date and c++ but that doesnt make me any wiser in this particular problem.

any suggestions on how to make it alwats show todays date when i run my prog??

thanx

/Eric

You have to initialize the date/time picker to the current date. If you use it uninitialized, it will show the 'NULL' date 01-01-1970.

The inbuilt function (_time) that you use always sets the date and time to jan 1 1970. thats why whenever u start the program you automatically get the above date & time .
regards

yeah i kinda realized that too but i dont really know how.. i cant get the CTime and COleDateTime stuff to work for me :(

/Eric

note: my reply was to what gstercken wrote, thanx for your answer jintojohnson

/Eric

You have probably created a DDX member variable of type CTime for your control. The default initialization created by class Wizard (in you Dialog's ctor) is '=0'. Just replace this by '=CTime::GetCurrentTime()'.

thanx alot gstercken!! :)

/Eric