Re: calculating minutes in C# - C# Discussion Boards

Luc Pattyn2-Jun-10 8:19

2-Jun-10 8:19

maybe there is a class or structure that deals with dates, and times, and time spans, and the like. If you want me to read the documentation to you, open your book and we will start at the letter 'A'.

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Dan Mos2-Jun-10 8:32

2-Jun-10 8:32

Luc Pattyn wrote:
If you want me to read the documentation to you

Better send CODEZ that reads the documentation
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dia 20102-Jun-10 8:58

dia 2010

2-Jun-10 8:58

thanx 4 rply
i dnt want u to read the documentation.

i just want to calulate time betwen two dates.
plz help me in this context.

thanx

OriginalGriff2-Jun-10 9:12

2-Jun-10 9:12

I think he is suggesting (remarkably politely, it must be said) that perhaps a little, tiny, teeny, intsy-bitsy little touch of research on your part would find the answer to this rather easily.

Perhaps if there was something on a large computer network, that you could ask to look for things? If it took English questions, and gave you a list of documents which would answer the question? If it prioritised those documents into best match, less good match, and so on for you? Wouldn't that be handy!

Now, what could there be, that does that...
It's a puzzler, to be sure...

Hang on! What's that you say Sooty? There is? It's name has even become the verb to use it? What's it called then, Sooty? GOOGLE

By the way, you will probably get less abuse in the future if you:

1) Realize your keyboard has vowels.
2) Start using them.

TxtSpk is frowned upon here, as computing tends to require precision, and accuracy.

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Luc Pattyn2-Jun-10 9:34

2-Jun-10 9:34

OriginalGriff wrote:
remarkably politely, it must be said

My right honorable friend, what are you suggesting here?
Keeping calm and polite, while offering a suggestion and a lot of keywords, that is me, and not remarkable.
I can't help it I'm no JSOP, CG, POH, or Led Mike.

For the interested reader who may get confused by the original question being removed (which is in violation with the forum guidelines), here it is once more:

Hi

how can i calculate minutes from 5/5/2010 7:00 PM to 6/1/2010 8:00 AM in C# ?


basically i have to find out the time difference in minutes between two transactions from the same IP Address.

Thanx

I aim to please.

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OriginalGriff2-Jun-10 9:53

2-Jun-10 9:53

Hi Luc!
I meant no slight; you are as always, polite and calm, despite considerable provocation at times. There are however, others (myself included on occasion Blush | :O

) who are not so considerate: the OP is lucky he was found by you and not them! It is remarkable only in that none of the usual suspects have hurled abuse at the OP for being quite so lazy. Laugh | :laugh:

I can recall myself instructing one gentleman to RTFM in 300 point red letters...

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Luc Pattyn2-Jun-10 10:11

2-Jun-10 10:11

Yes, the usual suspects seem to wear down. And so do a lot of others.

I'm not sure what is going on, the Q&A question rate is low, and forum activity is low too. Is the CP audience shrinking? Did entire continents suddenly see the light and run out of questions? is it the Guatemala Syndrome? what do you think?

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OriginalGriff2-Jun-10 21:36

2-Jun-10 21:36

I believe it may be that the entire planetary supply of stupidity is being invested in the World Cup... Laugh | :laugh:

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Luc Pattyn3-Jun-10 1:38

3-Jun-10 1:38

So this will become a very boring place?

OMG | :OMG:

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OriginalGriff3-Jun-10 1:48

3-Jun-10 1:48

Only for another five weeks - and anyway, we may get sensible questions for a change!

(But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that one...)

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Luc Pattyn3-Jun-10 2:22

3-Jun-10 2:22

there always are a couple of those, however they tend to be few and far apart; so we should see them getting closer together? Let's wait and see.

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Pete O'Hanlon3-Jun-10 1:46

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3-Jun-10 1:46

The message was removed before the usual suspects got to it (and I'm not sure if I'm included in there or not...)

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OriginalGriff3-Jun-10 1:50

3-Jun-10 1:50

Tuneless whistle...
Griff looks round at the room, trying to appear innocent. Laugh | :laugh:

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Luc Pattyn3-Jun-10 2:20

3-Jun-10 2:20

that is exactly why I copied it as soon as I discovered it was gone, see here[^]. There you go, now practice your usual fu.

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Pete O'Hanlon3-Jun-10 3:13

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3-Jun-10 3:13

Nah - you gave a sensible answer to it which, unfortunately, somebody else went and took all the fun out of.

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Dan Mos2-Jun-10 9:12

2-Jun-10 9:12

You are aware of the DateTime struct? Right?

Use it. You have two dates. Subtract from the most recent the other one witch will result in a
timespan(I think) and use the ToSeconds()*60 or ToTotalMiliseconds()*...

On a separte note if you read the documentation you'll be able to achive the computation of time between two dates.

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dia 20102-Jun-10 9:32

dia 2010

2-Jun-10 9:32

thanx

Not Active2-Jun-10 10:13

Not Active

2-Jun-10 10:13

You took all the fun out of it by giving the answer away.

Seriously, the OP has learned nothing now. Luc was politely, and correctly, trying to point out that the information was blatantly, glaringly obvious to anyone with even a hint of .NET knowledge or the ability to use Google, and, IMO, the OP was wasting everyone's time.

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Dan Mos2-Jun-10 10:25

2-Jun-10 10:25

Maybe yours or the OPs(fun).

But I saved my nerves and your time. Sleepy | :zzz:

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Dan Mos2-Jun-10 12:37

2-Jun-10 12:37

You enjoy one voting
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Not Active2-Jun-10 12:51

Not Active

2-Jun-10 12:51

Yes, I gave you a one. In my opinion it was a bad answer because you were encouraging the idiot to not do basic, simple research and rather rely on someone else to do their work.

If you want to be an ass, go right ahead, knock yourself out, have fun.

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Dan Mos2-Jun-10 13:04

2-Jun-10 13:04

Ass aside and I admit I wanted to be one right then,

so ass aside do you honestly belive he was going to txt his way into documentation?

I highly doubt it.
I just got rid of him.
After all, he replied to my reply to Luc's more than fine answer. I was the first to 5 it.

So appologies for the my being an ass but I just don't agree with you on this one.

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Not Active2-Jun-10 13:17

Not Active

2-Jun-10 13:17

We have the reponsibility to encourage proper coding, design, architecture, etc. not just give answers.

Get rid of him? No, you just encouraged him to come back and ask more stupid questions rather than develop the skills that will help him to succeed in this career. We've been around here longer than you and have seen the pattern many times.

If you want to aplogize for being an ass, then remove the distracting, unnecessary posts pointing it out.

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