Working with dates 2

[Jouster]

Hi,

I would like to know what is the best way to go about getting the time elapsed from a certain date. I would like to get it in the format of year/months/days/hours/minutes. I have been looking at the datediff function but there must be more to it because of leap years and such. If someone could give me a little explanatin on doing this or send me to some information I could read on this I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
-J

 

[chiph]

Store your dates in DateTime objects (part of the .NET framework and not the Visual Basic compatability layer), then subtract them. The result is a TimeSpan object, which can tell you how long the interval was in years, seconds, whatever.

Dim myDate1 As DateTime
Dim myDate2 As DateTime
Dim myDiff As TimeSpan

myDate1 = new DateTime(2004, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
myDate2 = DateTime.Now

myDiff = myDate2 - myDate1

;

Chip H.


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[PC888]

You will find an example on the usage of TimeSpan at the following site:

http://www.mathpath.uni.cc

look under vb.net and the example called Timer Resolution Test.

Happy Programming.