IS there a reason Timespan doesn't have an operator for divide? Being that
it's an amount of time I would have thought it should. Really it's just a
wrapper around a double variable?
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael,
It's not really a wrapper around a double variable. More like a 64 bit
integer.
You can always get the value of the Ticks property, divide it by two,
and create a new TimeSpan instance from that.
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IS there a reason Timespan doesn't have an operator for divide? Being that
it's an amount of time I would have thought it should. Really it's just a
wrapper around a double variable?
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael,
It's not really a wrapper around a double variable. More like a 64 bit
integer.
Good point.
You can always get the value of the Ticks property, divide it by two,
and create a new TimeSpan instance from that.
Yes, in my case I just got total seconds and divided by 2 but I'm still
curious as to why there is no operator for divide. I guess seeing no one
came up with a reason that means the reason is MS simply forgot.
Michael
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:55:16 -0800, Michael C <mi**@nospam.co mwrote:
[...] I guess seeing no one
came up with a reason that means the reason is MS simply forgot.
At best, it means that no one reading your post knows the answer.
You can't infer anything about the actual reason from a lack of responses.
Pete
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At best, it means that no one reading your post knows the answer.
Got a reason then?
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:25:46 -0800, Michael C <mi**@nospam.co mwrote:
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>At best, it means that no one reading your post knows the answer.
Got a reason then?
Why do I need an answer to the question just to point out that there's no
way (at present) to know the answer to the question? What would the point
be in pointing out that we don't know the reason if I actually knew the
reason?
"Peter Duniho" <Np*********@nn owslpianmk.comw rote in message
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>Got a reason then?
Why do I need an answer to the question just to point out that there's no
way (at present) to know the answer to the question? What would the point
be in pointing out that we don't know the reason if I actually knew the
reason?
Well, I'm sure if there was a reason a smart guy like you would know it.
Michael C wrote:
Yes, in my case I just got total seconds and divided by 2 but I'm still
curious as to why there is no operator for divide. I guess seeing no one
came up with a reason that means the reason is MS simply forgot.
I am with Peter on this, just because it wasn't done doesn't mean they forgot.
The possibility which makes the most sense to me relates to code clarity. Making
you use a property of the TimeSpan makes it perfectly clear what property you
are doing the math on, and what your expected result would be.
I'm not saying it's a perfect reason to not do it, I'm just guessing and don't
know any more than the people who have already spoken up.
Chris.
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I am with Peter on this, just because it wasn't done doesn't mean they
forgot.
The possibility which makes the most sense to me relates to code clarity.
Making you use a property of the TimeSpan makes it perfectly clear what
property you are doing the math on, and what your expected result would
be.
I'm not saying it's a perfect reason to not do it, I'm just guessing and
don't know any more than the people who have already spoken up.
To me it made such perfect sense that I went and coded it fully expecting it
to work. I was quite suprised some time later to get a compile error. The
alternative:
TimeSpan ts2 = new TimeSpan(ts1.Ti cks / 2)
appears much more complicated and although I presume that is the correct way
to do it I'm still not certain. Should I convert it to Milliseconds and back
or maybe seconds? Should I be using a double variable or an integer or long?
The only thing I can think of is that doing "ts1 / 2" it's not clear how it
will round but I don't think that's much of an issue. Obviously programmers
will expect it to have a certain level of resolution and that dividing by 2
could cause some minor loss of information.
Michael
Michael C wrote:
To me it made such perfect sense that I went and coded it fully expecting it
to work. I was quite suprised some time later to get a compile error. The
alternative:
TimeSpan ts2 = new TimeSpan(ts1.Ti cks / 2)
appears much more complicated and although I presume that is the correct way
to do it I'm still not certain. Should I convert it to Milliseconds and back
or maybe seconds? Should I be using a double variable or an integer or long?
The only thing I can think of is that doing "ts1 / 2" it's not clear how it
will round but I don't think that's much of an issue. Obviously programmers
will expect it to have a certain level of resolution and that dividing by 2
could cause some minor loss of information.
If you divide one int by another, the result is not rounded, it is truncated. If
you divide 99 by 100 the integer result is 0. This is likely why a TimeSpan,
which is purported by others to be just a wrapper for Int64, wouldn't have a
divisor or multiplier implementation.
If you need to ensure rounding occurs, you'll need to store it in a more precise
type and then round it back to an integer.
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