That's a tricky one. You could use the clipboard, copy the date from your app, shell open Notepad.exe, paste it there, but that might involve a WinAPI call.

Alternately, if all you need is just the date, you could just write out a text file as MyFile.TXT and then open that with Notepad. That would be easier to do.

I haven't had VB6 installed on my machines in YEARS, so I've got no way to try it for sure.

Open Notepad
Press F5
It inserts the current datetime

Another option is to add ".LOG" to the start of the file.
MS Article: How to Use Notepad to Create a Log File

[Untested]
Run a process:
echo %date% %time% > log.txt

Yeah... what he said. :)

Thanks for your reply Richard, I will try my best. I am going to start with the Clipboard. Alex suggested the F5 method in Notepad which is great but I would like to do this programmatically. Might use AHK.

Much thanks to Alex for all the options as well!

Hello Richard:

I finally found an easy way to do this. Thanks to your course (VB 201), I was studying the "Print #1" method you used in reading and writing to files lesson. I inserted a timer onto the form, then added a non-visible text box, linked the date and time to the textbox and just used the"Print #1" method with the name of the textbox into notepad. Success! Thanks again Richard. I did want to ask you, what would be the best investment for me to purchase to upgrade my VB6 to something newer? To simplify, what new version of Visual Basic should I get? Thanks again for all your help!

Regards,
Dwight

Hello Richard:

Just an FYI, disregard my most recent post regarding my question as to what platform I should upgrade to. My better question is, what application/language/platform do I need to get to follow along with your lessons on Visual Basic 2019?

Most assuredly appreciated,
Dwight

Just download Visual Studio. It's FREE. That's what I'll be making new lessons for.

Thanks Richard. Will do that!

Glad you got it working, sorry I thought you'd already tried the Print.

Is there anything in particular you want to see in the updated lessons?
I started writing up some Tips a few years back that might be of use.