How to take the difference of two time

Hi all,

I would like to take the difference of two time and if it is more than 30 minutes, I will take some action.

I had manage to convert the time to string as follow

dt1="2006/03/20 23:55"

dt2="2006/04/10 10:55"

May I know how to take the difference (dt2-dt1) and check if the difference is more than 30 minutes

Please help

freka586

If dt1 and dt2 are date times, operator - returns a timespan.

TimeSpan ts = dt2 - dt1;

then you can check if it's > 30 min.
Patrick Grimme

Convert.ToDateTime may work for these values. Obviously, that's the type you need to work with.
Joe Rappo
Hi Florin,

Thanks for your help. I got it.
Yavuz Bogazci
A complete solution could be (you have to treat exceptions in the conversion also):

string l_sDate1 = "2006/03/20 22:00";
string l_sDate2 = "2006/03/20 23:00";

DateTime l_objDate1 = DateTime.Parse(l_sDate1);
DateTime l_objDate2 = DateTime.Parse(l_sDate2);

TimeSpan l_objTime = l_objDate2 - l_objDate1;

Console.WriteLine("Difference in hours: " + l_objTime.TotalHours);
Jaimi
Hi,

I had applied the method as shown below :

DateTime dt1 = Convert.ToDateTime(file_str_current1);

DateTime dt2 = Convert.ToDateTime(txn_time);

TimeSpan ts = dt1 - dt2;

The value of dt1 is "4/10/2006 01:52:11 PM"

and the value of dt2 is "3/23/2006 06:51:00 AM"

and the value of ts is "18.07:01:11"

Do you know how to interpret this

And how can I convert to minutes

Thanks
Ivan Starr
currently, dt1 and dt2 are string, can I convert it to datetime
How to take the difference of two time