Timespan help please!

[paulparkes]

Hi,

I’m trying to learn how Timespan (in C#) works, but the online resources I’ve viewed so far have really confused me. I was wondering if someone could walk me through a really simple scenario?

Say for example, I had a ‘StartTime’ (I’m guessing I use an ‘Assign’, using System.DateTime.Now), and then some time later, I get a ‘LaterTime’ (again, using System.DateTime.Now). Would I then use Timespan to calculate the difference between the two times? If so, how would I do this? And would the ‘StartTime’ and ‘LaterTime’ variables be of type ‘Object’, or would they be ‘DateTime’?

Sorry if these are really silly questions, but I’m SO confused!

Thanks

[Yoichi]

Hi,

Can you check the following sample?

Sample20230922-6LCS.zip (2.5 KB)

Regards,

,

[Praveen_Mudhiraj]

Hi @paulparkes

If you need time as output

StartTime=System.DateTime.Now

LaterTime =System.DateTime.Now

timeDifference = endTime.Subtract(startTime)

If you need only time difference as output

You can try this

timeDifference=timeDifference.ToString(“hh:mm:ss”)

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

Calculating Date Difference in C#

[paulparkes]

Thank you for this. I’ve almost got it working, but I don’t have the TimeSpan variable type listed; when I browse for it, it’s not available. Is there a plugin or something that I might be missing?

[Praveen_Mudhiraj]

you can search like this you can find the time span variable type

@paulparkes

[paulparkes]

I don’t have it

[Praveen_Mudhiraj]

you can directly type "timespan " or “system.timespan”

you can see my screenshot

@paulparkes

[paulparkes]

That’s got it, thanks!

[Praveen_Mudhiraj]

@paulparkes

cheers …