Bug In System.TimeSpan Object?

Doug

Is it possible there is a bug with the System.TimeSpan object in .NET?
I am using it to track times and am seeing an unusual situation.

From what I understand, there are 1000 milliseconds in a second. I
have a test I ran using the TimeSpan object which when I use
TimeSpan.Milliseconds I got 658 but if I use TimeSpan.Seconds I get 5.

If it took 658 milliseconds that should be less than 1 second right?
658 milliseconds should not convert to 5 seconds should it?

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Is it possible there is a bug with the System.TimeSpan object in .NET?
I am using it to track times and am seeing an unusual situation.

From what I understand, there are 1000 milliseconds in a second. I
have a test I ran using the TimeSpan object which when I use
TimeSpan.Milliseconds I got 658 but if I use TimeSpan.Seconds I get 5.

If it took 658 milliseconds that should be less than 1 second right?
658 milliseconds should not convert to 5 seconds should it?

You are confusing TimeSpan.Milliseconds and TimeSpan.TotalMilliseconds. If
your time span was 5.658 seconds long, then:

TimeSpan.Seconds = 5
TimeSpan.Milliseconds = 658
TimeSpan.TotalMilliseconds = 5658

Jul 21 '05 #2

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