QDateTime::currentMSecsSinceEpoch ()

[fantom]

Dear all,

I would like your help concerning the current Date Time acquisition. I am trying to send a message from a client to a DB server. I am structuring the message as follows:

int random = qrand() & 10000;
	QString message = QString("%1 J/N " + QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString()).arg(random);
	QByteArray msg = message.toUtf8();
	QByteArray data = "MESSAGE " + QByteArray::number(msg.size()) + " " + msg;

int random = qrand() & 10000;
	QString message = QString("%1 J/N " + QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString()).arg(random);
	QByteArray msg = message.toUtf8();
	QByteArray data = "MESSAGE " + QByteArray::number(msg.size()) + " " + msg;

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I have no error but the final output of the date time isn't like 0000-00-00 00:00:00 as i expected, but it looks like this the message "256 J/N Di 15. Mai 17:41:39 2012".
Do you have any idea how to change it?

Thank you in advance!

[Lesiok]

Why do you think it has to be 0000? QDateTime::currentDateTime returns you the current time.
P.S.
I think I understand. You mean the date format. If you want to have this result, regardless of the settings on your computer you must explicitly specify the format of toString.

[ChrisW67]

If you want the number of milliseconds since the epoch, as your thread title implies, then you should call QDateTime::currentMSecsSinceEpoch() to get a single massive number that has no format. If you want a portable string representation of the current time then I suggest you use:

QString message = QString("%1 J/N %2").arg(random).arg(QDateTime::currentDateTimeUtc().toString(Qt::ISODate));

QString message = QString("%1 J/N %2").arg(random).arg(QDateTime::currentDateTimeUtc().toString(Qt::ISODate));

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Note that I have use UTC to allow for time zone and daylight savings differences between client and server.