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TimeSpan

In this chapter you will learn:

  1. What is TimeSpan

Get to know TimeSpan

To repesent a period of time, such as 2.5 hours we can use TimeSpan. We can create TimeSpan instances by using its contructors or using its fromXXX methods.

Here are the constructors:

public TimeSpan (int hours, int minutes, int seconds);
public TimeSpan (int days, int hours, int minutes, int seconds);
public TimeSpan (int days, int hours, int minutes, int seconds,int milliseconds);
public TimeSpan (long ticks);  // Each tick = 100ns

The static From... methods are more convenient:

public static TimeSpan FromDays (double value); 
public static TimeSpan FromHours (double value); 
public static TimeSpan FromMinutes (double value); 
public static TimeSpan FromSeconds (double value);
public static TimeSpan FromMilliseconds (double value);

The following code shows how to create a TimeSpan.

using System;/* java  2  s  .  c o  m*/
using System.Text;
class Sample
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(new TimeSpan(2, 30, 0));  // 02:30:00
        Console.WriteLine(TimeSpan.FromHours(2.5));  // 02:30:00
        Console.WriteLine(TimeSpan.FromHours(-2.5));  // -02:30:00

    }
}

The output:

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What you will learn in the next chapter:

  1. How to add time span to another time span
  2. How to subtract from time span
  3. Subtract 15 minutes from the current TimeSpan and print the result
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