Convert Difference between 2 times into Milliseconds?

Question

I have two masked TextBox controls and was wondering how I'd go about getting the time in each one and then converting the difference into milliseconds. Like, say in tb1 I write "12:01" and in tb2 I write "12:02", and then click a button. Once the button's clicked it starts a timer and at 12:02 a messagebox will be displayed. I know how to do all of it except for the time conversion part.

How can it be achieved?

Answer 1

To answer the title-question:

DateTime d1 = ...;
DateTime d2 = ...;
TimeSpan diff = d2 - d1;

int millisceonds = (int) diff.TotalMilliseconds;

You can use this to set a Timer:

timer1.interval = millisceonds;
timer1.Enabled = true;

Don't forget to disable the timer when handling the tick.

But if you want an event at 12:03, just substitute DateTime.Now for d1.

But it is not clear what the exact function of textBox1 and textBox2 are.

Answer 2

You have to convert textbox's values to DateTime (t1,t2), then:

DateTime t1,t2;
t1 = DateTime.Parse(textbox1.Text);
t2 = DateTime.Parse(textbox2.Text);
int diff = ((TimeSpan)(t2 - t1)).TotalMilliseconds;

Or use DateTime.TryParse(textbox1, out t1); Error handling is up to you.

Answer 3

Try:

DateTime first;
DateTime second;

int milliSeconds = (int)((TimeSpan)(second - first)).TotalMilliseconds;

Answer 4

Try the following:

   DateTime dtStart;
   DateTime dtEnd;

   if (DateTime.TryParse( tb1.Text, out dtStart ) && DateTime.TryParse(tb2.Text, out dtEnd ))
   {
      TimeSpan ts = dtStart - dtEnd;
      double difference = ts.TotalMilliseconds;
   }

Answer 5

If you just want to display a message box at 12:02, use a timer control with delay of, say, 250ms, that keeps checking if the current time is 12:02. When it is, display the message and stop the timer. Note this does not require a start time field (although you may be using that for something else -- I don't know -- in which case the other code provided to you here will be helpful).

Answer 6

DateTime dt1 = DateTime.Parse(maskedTextBox1.Text);
DateTime dt2 = DateTime.Parse(maskedTextBox2.Text);
TimeSpan span = dt2 - dt1;
int ms = (int)span.TotalMilliseconds;

Answer 7

If you are only dealing with Times and no dates you will want to only deal with TimeSpan and handle crossing over midnight.

TimeSpan time1 = ...;  // assume TimeOfDay
TimeSpan time2 = ...;  // assume TimeOfDay
TimeSpan diffTime = time2 - time1;
if (time2 < time1)  // crosses over midnight
    diffTime += TimeSpan.FromTicks(TimeSpan.TicksPerDay);
int totalMilliSeconds = (int)diffTime.TotalMilliseconds;