extracting number from date

[bill tie]

Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?

[Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor]]

You can use the version of ToString that takes a format, i.e.

int i = int.Parse(d.ToString("dhhmmss"));

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog

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Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

bill tie <bi*****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?

As well as Richard's suggestion, you could use:

int value = dt.Day*1000000 +
dt.Hour*10000 +
dt.Minute*100 +
dt.Second;

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