how to achieve timespan to string conversion??

Question

I tried searching here, but it couldn't help me much ..
I want to convert time_span to string, I don't want to return the timespan in days .. but only HH:mm:ss. How to achieve that?

My sample code is here:

              String time_span_par = "06:12:40";
              String time_str = "18:13:59";
              TimeSpan time_span_var = TimeSpan.Parse(time_span_par);
              TimeSpan time_span = TimeSpan.Parse(time_str);

              time_span = time_span.Add(time_span_var);
              string temp = time_span.ToString("HH:mm:ss");

Answer 1

Try using

DateTime d = new DateTime(time_span.Ticks);
string time = d.ToString("HH:mm:ss");

Answer 2

This should work:

string temp = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}",
    time_span.Hours.ToString(), time_span.Minutes.ToString(),
    time_span.Seconds.ToString());

As per comment if you want the double digits you could do:

string temp = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}",
    time_span.Hours.ToString("00"), time_span.Minutes.ToString("00"),
    time_span.Seconds.ToString("00"));

Edited:as per jimmy's comment,

string temp = string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}",time_span.Hours, time_span.Minutes, time_span.Seconds);

Answer 3

Simply convert the value of ticks into a DateTime and then use its ToString()

var date1 = DateTime.Now;
var date2 = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds( -1000 );
var diff = date1 - date2;
var temp = new DateTime( diff.Ticks ).ToString( "HH:mm:ss" )

Answer 4

Try this:

    time_span = time_span.Add(time_span_var);
    string temp = time_span.ToString();
    temp = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}", time_span.TotalHours, time_span.TotalMinutes, time_span.TotalSeconds);

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Edit After I read your comment on your question, that is you need to display zero hours for new days, my answer will give you total hours, minutes and seconds, not what you want.

(+1) Kelseys ;)

Answer 5

String time_span_par = "06:12:40";
String time_str = "18:13:59";
TimeSpan time_span_var = TimeSpan.Parse(time_span_par);
TimeSpan time_span = TimeSpan.Parse(time_str);

TimeSpan finalTime =  (time_span_var + time_span);
Console.WriteLine(finalTime);
Console.WriteLine(finalTime - TimeSpan.FromHours(finalTime.Days * 24));

Answer 6

The code I have implemented is:

          string temp = DateTime.Today.Add(time_span).ToString("HH:mm:ss");

Originally posted by Marc Gravell,