add timespan to datetime

[Lars Schouw]

I would like to to add a time span "1Y 2M 3W 20D" entered as a string
to a date time how do I do that?

Lars

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Lars Schouw <sc******@yahoo.comwrote:

I would like to to add a time span "1Y 2M 3W 20D" entered as a string
to a date time how do I do that?

Well, you'll need to parse the string yourself into a TimeSpan. After
that, however, it's easy:

TimeSpan x = ...;
DateTime y = ...;

DateTime total = y+x;

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[Lars Schouw]

I just read the documentaion quickly does TimeSpan also work with
years, months, weeks?
I can find days.
Lars

On May 22, 3:28 pm, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <[e-mail]:

Lars Schouw <[e-mail]:

I would like to to add a time span "1Y 2M 3W 20D" entered as a string
to a date time how do I do that?

Well, you'll need to parse the string yourself into a TimeSpan. After
that, however, it's easy:

TimeSpan x = ...;
DateTime y = ...;

DateTime total = y+x;

--
Jon Skeet - <[e-mail]>http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On May 22, 11:01 am, Lars Schouw <[e-mail]:

I just read the documentaion quickly does TimeSpan also work with
years, months, weeks?
I can find days.

Months and years vary in length, so you'll need to work out exactly
what you mean. If you want to add 1 year to Jan 1st and always get Jan
1st, you may want to look at adding each field individually rather
than using TimeSpan: DateTime has AddYears and AddMonths methods.
(Note that these return new DateTime values - DateTime itself is
immutable.)

Weeks is just a matter of multiplying by 7 and treating as days.

Jon