Current Time CME

May 14th, 2013, 01:16 PM

Hello,

Im trying to create a little indicator which displays the current time for the e-mini session.
if im right, this would be the time of chicago, the central time zone.

Could anybody tell me how i get this current time?

thank you,
mike

Update:

got it

DateTime UTCLocal = DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().AddHours(-5);
DrawTextFixed("time",UTCLocal.ToLongTimeString(),TextPosition.BottomLeft);

May 14th, 2013, 04:27 PM

Hmm, it's not always -5 hours, 365 days/year, be careful.
You maye use TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time") with TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(), to avoid any problems.

May 15th, 2013, 05:17 AM

hey sam,

thank you very much for your reply.
could you please provide a small sample code how this could be done?

im stuck after the intitla part of the timezone:

TimeZoneInfo tzi = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");

thak you and cheers,
mike

May 15th, 2013, 06:45 AM

Not tested:

Code

                            
private DateTime now, timeinChicago;

private TimeZoneInfo cst;     

protected override void Initialize()

{

    cst = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");

}

protected override void OnBarUpdate()

{

    now = DateTime.Now;

    timeinChicago = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(now , cst);

    Print("Time in Chicago: " + timeinChicago);

}

May 15th, 2013, 07:00 AM

you are the man, it works!

thank you very much,
mike

May 15th, 2013, 04:26 PM

you can use timezone info from session of Instrument

TimeZoneInfo tzi = Instrument.MasterInstrument.Session.TimeZoneInfo;

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