FILETIME to string

is there any easy way in the api that can do this already?
making it on my own with FileTimeToSystemTime and then putting all the vars in a string is kinda problem matic

You could use sprintf or StringCchPrintf(). Here is an example from MSDN:

Code:

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BOOL GetLastWriteTime(HANDLE hFile, LPTSTR lpszString, DWORD dwSize)
{
    FILETIME ftCreate, ftAccess, ftWrite;
    SYSTEMTIME stUTC, stLocal;
    DWORD dwRet;

    // Retrieve the file times for the file.
    if (!GetFileTime(hFile, &ftCreate, &ftAccess, &ftWrite))
        return FALSE;

    // Convert the last-write time to local time.
    FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftWrite, &stUTC);
    SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime(NULL, &stUTC, &stLocal);

    // Build a string showing the date and time.
    dwRet = StringCchPrintf(lpszString, dwSize,
        TEXT("%02d/%02d/%d  %02d:%02d"),
        stLocal.wMonth, stLocal.wDay, stLocal.wYear,
        stLocal.wHour, stLocal.wMinute);

    if( S_OK == dwRet )
        return TRUE;
    else return FALSE;
}

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except its not a date its a number of how many time has passed past.