C# DateTime Ticks

Description

DateTime Ticks gets the number of ticks that represent the date and time of this instance.

Syntax

DateTime.Ticks has the following syntax.


public long Ticks { get; }

Example

The following example uses the Ticks property to display the number of ticks that have elapsed since the beginning of the twenty-first century and to instantiate a TimeSpan object.


using System;/*  w  ww  .j  av  a  2 s .com*/
public class MainClass{
  public static void Main(String[] argv){  
    DateTime centuryBegin = new DateTime(2001, 1, 1);
    DateTime currentDate = DateTime.Now;
    
    long elapsedTicks = currentDate.Ticks - centuryBegin.Ticks;
    TimeSpan elapsedSpan = new TimeSpan(elapsedTicks);
    
    System.Console.WriteLine("Elapsed from the beginning of the century to {0:f}:", 
                       currentDate);
    System.Console.WriteLine("   {0:N0} nanoseconds", elapsedTicks * 100);
    System.Console.WriteLine("   {0:N0} ticks", elapsedTicks);
    System.Console.WriteLine("   {0:N2} seconds", elapsedSpan.TotalSeconds);
    System.Console.WriteLine("   {0:N2} minutes", elapsedSpan.TotalMinutes);
    System.Console.WriteLine("   {0:N0} days, {1} hours, {2} minutes, {3} seconds", 
                      elapsedSpan.Days, elapsedSpan.Hours, 
                      elapsedSpan.Minutes, elapsedSpan.Seconds);  

  }
}

The code above generates the following result.