Name
TimeSpan
Synopsis
This class encapsulates a positive or negative interval of time that can
be used for arithmetic operations and greater-than or less-than comparisons.
Internally, the TimeSpan
is stored as a number of ticks,
each of which is equal to 100 nanoseconds. You can convert a string into a
TimeSpan
using the static
Parse()
method.
You can evaluate a time span in terms of days, hours, seconds, and so on,
by using the appropriate Total
property. The corresponding
properties that are not preceded with the word Total
return only one
component of the time span. (For example, the
TotalHours
property returns 1.5 for a time span of an hour and a half, while
Hours
returns 1 for a time span of one hour.)
The TimeSpan
static methods prefixed
with From
are useful for quickly
creating a time span for
use as an argument for a method call, as in
myApp.SetTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10))
.
public struct TimeSpan : IComparable { // Public Constructors public method TimeSpan(int hours, int minutes, int seconds); public method TimeSpan(int days, int hours, int minutes, int seconds); public method TimeSpan(int days, int hours, int minutes, int seconds, int milliseconds); public method TimeSpan(long ticks); // Public Static Fields public static readonly field TimeSpan MaxValue; // =10675199.02:48:05.4775807 public static readonly field TimeSpan MinValue; // =-10675199.02:48:05.4775808 public const field long TicksPerDay; // =864000000000 public const field long TicksPerHour; // =36000000000 ...
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