Working with Time
You often need to represent intervals of time in your applications, especially in conjunction with dates. The .NET Framework provides a structure for this: a value type named System.TimeSpan. This structure can represent time from a minimum value (one tick) until a maximum value (one day). A tick is the smallest unit for time representations and is equal to 100 nanoseconds. TimeSpan represents a summed amount of time between two given time values, and the time portion of a Date object represents a single specific moment in time.
Minimum and Maximum Values
As for other value types, System.TimeSpan also provides two shared properties named MinValue and MaxValue. MinValue returns -10675199.02:48:05.4775808, and MaxValue returns ...
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