extract Integer part of TimeSpan.TotalMinutes?

[Rich]

Dim tse As TimeSpan, sTime, eTime As Date, m As Double
sTime = Now
.....stuff
eTime = Now
tse = eTime.Subract(sTime)
m = tse.TotalMinutes

'--get Int portion of m
Console.WriteLine(Ctype(m, Integer))

Is this the correct/best way to do this?

Thanks,
Rich

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Rich" <Ri**@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

Dim tse As TimeSpan, sTime, eTime As Date, m As Double
sTime = Now
....stuff
eTime = Now
tse = eTime.Subract(sTime)
m = tse.TotalMinutes

'--get Int portion of m
Console.WriteLine(Ctype(m, Integer))

Is this the correct/best way to do this?

If you don't want rounding to take place, you may want to use something like
'CInt(Int(m))'.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Rich,

Why you don't use the minutes property?

Otherwise I would use the toString to get the double in a string.

Cor

[Rich]

Yes, of course. Instead of taking a double like Dim m As Double

m = tse.TotalMinutes

I could use Herfried's suggestion

Dim m As Integer
m = Cint(tse.TotalMinutes)

I was getting confused with VB.Net's complaint about using an Int with a
Double. I guess the trick is to cast with Cint (or Int).

"Cor Ligthert" wrote:

Rich,

Why you don't use the minutes property?

Otherwise I would use the toString to get the double in a string.

Cor

[Rich]

Thanks for your reply. I am thinking

Dim m As Integer
m = Cint(tse.TotalMinutes)

I was getting confused on the casting thinking that you always have to use
CType.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

"Rich" <Ri**@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

Dim tse As TimeSpan, sTime, eTime As Date, m As Double
sTime = Now
....stuff
eTime = Now
tse = eTime.Subract(sTime)
m = tse.TotalMinutes

'--get Int portion of m
Console.WriteLine(Ctype(m, Integer))

Is this the correct/best way to do this?

If you don't want rounding to take place, you may want to use something like
'CInt(Int(m))'.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Rich,

I could use Herfried's suggestion

Dim m As Integer
m = Cint(tse.TotalMinutes)

In my opinion is that the same as using the minutes property.

m = tse.Minutes

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert" <no************@planet.nl> schrieb:

I could use Herfried's suggestion

Dim m As Integer
m = Cint(tse.TotalMinutes)

In my opinion is that the same as using the minutes property.

m = tse.Minutes

No, that's something different. 'TotalMinutes' will return the whole
timespan's value in minutes, 'Minutes' will return the minutes which are not
"covered" by full hours.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Herfried,

No, that's something different. 'TotalMinutes' will return the whole
timespan's value in minutes, 'Minutes' will return the minutes which are
not "covered" by full hours.

You are right, wrong thinking from me.

:-)

Thanks for attending me on this.

Cor