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Hi, I am a total newbie so please bear with me.

I have a page on our website that displays the LAST TIME a reading was taken. What I would like to show is the days & hours since that last reading.
eg: last reading was yesterday 12noon, time now is 10am so I want to display that it has been 22 hours since last reading.
Code at present to display the last reading is
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Rob

Posted 27-Jun-10 17:21pm

Rob Crutcher

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Sandeep Mewara 28-Jun-10 1:49am

Did you tried playing around with DateTime.Now?

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J4amieC · Answer 1 · 2010-06-27T23:38:00

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DateTime instances, such as that returned by DateTime.Now have a Subtract[^] method which returns an instance of TimeSpan. TimeSpan includes a number of properties, such as TotalMinutes which can be used for exactly the purpose you're after.

Posted 27-Jun-10 23:38pm

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