.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

System.TimeSpan

This structure represents an interval of time. Because the number of days in months and years varies and those values change between some cultures, the longest unit of time used by TimeSpan is a day. Listing B.16 shows an example of using TimeSpan (timespan.cs).

Listing B.16. TimeSpan Example

public class TimeSpanMain { static void Main(string [] args) { // Allocate a TimeSpan object // with a given number of ticks TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(1012); Console.WriteLine("{0} ", ts); // Allocate a TimeSpan object // with days, hours, minutes, seconds ts = new TimeSpan(11, 13, 46, 40); Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", ts, ts.Ticks.ToString("#,#")); } }

The output for Listing B.16 is as follows:

 00:00:00.0001012 11.13:46:40 10,000,000,000,000 ...