Creating a file/folder with localtime in the name

[evilpacketmonkey]

Goal: Create a file with the current (local) time as a part of the name. Problem is time and date outputs use illegal characters "/" and ":".

Example: Project_03_30_2009_17_52_10.txt

I cobbled some code together by using the "search" tool and the help file.

The question is, there is a better way to do this right?

#include <Date.au3>

Dim $tSystem, $tLocal, $TimeDate, $LocalArrayDate, $LocalArrayTime, $TimeDate, $LocalDateForFile, $Combined_DateTime_ForFile
Dim $LocalDateForFile, $LocalTimeForFile

_SystemTimeToLocalTimeArray()

Func _SystemTimeToLocalTimeArray()
  $tSystem = _Date_Time_GetSystemTime()
  $tLocal  = _Date_Time_SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime(DllStructGetPtr($tSystem))
  $TimeDate = StringSplit(_Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateTimeStr($tLocal), ' ', 1)
  $LocalArrayDate = StringSplit($TimeDate[1], '/', 1)
  $LocalDateForFile = $LocalArrayDate[1] & "_" & $LocalArrayDate[2] & "_" & $LocalArrayDate[3]
  $LocalArrayTime = StringSplit($TimeDate[2], ':', 1)
  $LocalTimeForFile = $LocalArrayTime[1] & "_"& $LocalArrayTime[2] & "_" & $LocalArrayTime[3]
Global  $Combined_DateTime_ForFile = "_" & $LocalDateForFile & "_" & $LocalTimeForFile
EndFunc


MSGBOX(0, "Title", $Combined_DateTime_ForFile)

[Ascend4nt]

All you need are macros..

@YEAR,@MON,@MDAY,@HOUR,@MIN,@SEC

[evilpacketmonkey]

All you need are macros..

@YEAR,@MON,@MDAY,@HOUR,@MIN,@SEC

..ahh cool thanks. I knew it had to be something simple but I guess I was not seeing the forest through the tree's. My bad.

Thanks for your help.