CTime returns -1

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April 14th, 2005, 10:12 AM

Captain Nemo

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CTime returns -1

Why would the following code fail?

Code:

COleDateTime t = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime();

in this innocent code GetCurrentTime() returns -1

I have no idea why

April 14th, 2005, 10:15 AM

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Maybe you haven't initialized OLE?

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April 14th, 2005, 12:34 PM

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Try something like this perhaps? MSDN gives this example:

Code:

COleDateTime t2(COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime());

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April 14th, 2005, 04:27 PM

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It can't return -1 because it returns an COleDateTime object. I tried several different ways to generate the error and never got one. Even the program below was ok and MFC was not even initialized!

Code:

int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[])
{
	int nRetCode = 0;

	// initialize MFC and print and error on failure
//	if (!AfxWinInit(::GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL, ::GetCommandLine(), 0))
//	{
		// TODO: change error code to suit your needs
//		cerr << _T("Fatal Error: MFC initialization failed") << endl;
//		nRetCode = 1;
//	}
	COleDateTime t = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime();
	return nRetCode;
}

April 14th, 2005, 05:49 PM

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