DateTime Issue Need some help/suggestions

[Ddraig]

Howdy,

I'm having an issue with my code and I can't seem to figure it out. I'm trying to make an alert system basically the program goes out to a site(rss feed) checks the time and if the alert is not older than 20 minutes (arbitrary number for coding purposes) then it displays a message (the feed details), But if it is older than 20 minutes then it doesn't display the alert.

So far I can not get the date time to compare the way I want it too. Let me post some of my code, it might be a bit of a mess since I've been going back and forth with it.

If Date.UtcNow.Subtract(System.TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20)) < xNode.selectSingleNode("pubDate").text Then
Messagebox.show("This is a new Alert Message")
Else
Messagebox.Show("No new Alerts")
End If

I am thinking it has something to do with the way my feed is putting in the Date Time and will need to hack the code a bit and fix the date time in it.

http://www.newworldorderchat.com/GH_Feed.asp?CatID=B7C666D7756E4EA4883BA9E88002488B

Perhaps there is a better way to do this? I'm not familiar with date.compare, but that might also be something useful.

 

[gmmastros]

It looks like you are using Visual Basic .net. This Forum is for Visual Basic Version 5 and/or 6.

I suggest you re-post your question in the vb.net forum forum796.


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[Ddraig]

Doh I thought something looked wrong haha. Thanks.