Application #2. Use DateTimes
This sample introduces you to most of the properties and methods of the DateTime and TimeSpan classes, and it allows you to work interactively with them.
New Concepts
The DateTime structure in .NET is different from the Date type in Visual Basic 6. Unlike the Visual Basic 6 Date, which was really a Double type in disguise, DateTime is a value type defined in the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework library and is available to all .NET languages. You can instantiate and initialize a DateTime class like this
Dim myDate As New DateTime (2004, 9, 15)
and it becomes September 15, 2004.
A TimeSpan object represents a period of time, measured in ticks, 100-nanosecond intervals. TimeSpan values can be positive or negative ...
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