Days, hours, minutes, seconds between two dates

Question

I have two dates, one less than the other. I want to create a string such as this one

\"0 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes, 18 seconds\"

representing the differenc

Answer 1

When you subtract one DateTime from another, you get a TimeSpan instance, which exposes those values.

TimeSpan diff = DateTime.Now - DateTime.Today;
string formatted = string.Format(
                       CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, 
                       "{0} days, {1} hours, {2} minutes, {3} seconds", 
                       diff.Days, 
                       diff.Hours, 
                       diff.Minutes, 
                       diff.Seconds);

Answer 2

Have you tried using

TimeSpan()

that can certainly do what you want

Answer 3

TimeSpan diffTime = dateTimeNew -PreviousDate;
int days=diffTime.Days;
int hours=diffTime.Hours;
int minutes=diffTime.Minutes;
int seconds=diffTime.Seconds;

Answer 4

Don't forget that if you want this calculation to be portable you need to store it as UTC and then when you display it convert to local time. As a general rule Store dates as UTC and convert to local time for presentation.

Answer 5

How about something like this?

    TimeSpan diff = dateTimeNew - dateTimeOld;
    string output = string.Format("{0} days, {1} hours, {2} minues, {3} seconds", diff.Days, diff.Hours, diff.Minutes, diff.Seconds);
    Console.WriteLine(output);

Answer 6

    DateTime myDay = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime otherDate = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1);
    var test = otherDate.Subtract(myDay);
    Console.WriteLine("Days:" + test.Days + "Hours:" + test.Hours +"Minutes" +  test.Minutes +"Seconds" + test.Seconds);

Here test is of type TimeStamp