Date/Time

How do you display the date and/or time in a label?

Thanks,
Tom

Label1.Text = Now.Today

if you just want the date and not the time. Use just "Now" for both date and time.

It worked like you said! But now I need it to display "real time" so that its constantly changing. Your method only shows the date when the form load. Although I put the code into the form.load procedure...holla back

Use a timer

how would I use a timer(semi-NooB)?

Go to your form designer window, go to toolbox on the left, click on the timer in the toolbox, then click on the form and a timer is added. Double-click the timer to get access to the timer's Tick event. You can change the interval of the timer in the properties window, and make sure you enable it when you need to use it. :)

Or if you'd rather use code (I would)

Private _myTimer As System.Threading.Timer 'local to class

'call this to start the timer, pass it the interval
Private Sub StartTimer(ByVal period As Integer)
Dim callback As New Threading.TimerCallback(AddressOf OnTimer)

_myTimer = New System.Threading.Timer(callback, Nothing, 0, period)
End Sub

'timer callback
Private Sub OnTimer(ByVal State As Object)
'do timer stuff here
End Sub

'call this when finished with the timer
Private Sub EndTimer()
_myTimer.Dispose()
_myTimer = Nothing
End Sub