Simple question

[D. Yates]

Hi all,

Is there a place in the .NET framework where simple time constants are
defined?

For example:
How many days are there in a week? Hours in a day? Minutes in an hour?
Seconds in a minute?

None of these are going to change, so they are obviously constants. Now I
can define my own constants, but it would be just as easy to use the
frameworks constants.....i f I could find them.....

The logical place to look was System.DateTime .DaysInOneWeek; however, this
does not exist.

Thanks,
Dave

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Simple question

TimeSpan has the TicksPerWhateve r constants, but no; you may need to add
your own constants if you value this...

Marc

[Dave Sexton]

Re: Simple question

Hi Dave,

The problem is that they may change depending on the locale of the computer running the code.
Calendars vary from culture to culture, and so I assume time constants may as well.

The type of information you have requested would normally be found in the
System.Globaliz ation.CultureIn fo.CurrentCultu re object, however I couldn't find any properties or
methods that seem to apply. Take a look and maybe you'll have better luck than I have.

--
Dave Sexton

"D. Yates" <foeman@hotmail .comwrote in message news:%23sQR2LMD HHA.4928@TK2MSF TNGP02.phx.gbl. ..

Hi all,
>
Is there a place in the .NET framework where simple time constants are defined?
>
For example:
How many days are there in a week? Hours in a day? Minutes in an hour? Seconds in a minute?
>
None of these are going to change, so they are obviously constants. Now I can define my own
constants, but it would be just as easy to use the frameworks constants.....i f I could find
them.....
>
The logical place to look was System.DateTime .DaysInOneWeek; however, this does not exist.
>
Thanks,
Dave
>

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

Re: Simple question

I think it'd save you time to define them yourself in a central enum
....

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:41:48 -0600, "D. Yates" <foeman@hotmail .com>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Is there a place in the .NET framework where simple time constants are
>defined?
>
>For example:
>How many days are there in a week? Hours in a day? Minutes in an hour?
>Seconds in a minute?
>
>None of these are going to change, so they are obviously constants. Now I
>can define my own constants, but it would be just as easy to use the
>frameworks constants.....i f I could find them.....
>
>The logical place to look was System.DateTime .DaysInOneWeek; however, this
>does not exist.
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>

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[Fred Mellender]

Re: Simple question

You might find that you can obtain these constants via TimeSpan. E.G.

static int hoursInDay = (new TimeSpan(1,0,0, 0)).Hours; or
TimeSpan.FromDa ys(1.0).Hours;

and similar techniques. Or, it may be you need these constants only in the
context of figuring a time span or a date, in which case it would be better
to use DateTime and/or TimeSpan directly.

"D. Yates" <foeman@hotmail .comwrote in message
news:%23sQR2LMD HHA.4928@TK2MSF TNGP02.phx.gbl. ..

Hi all,
>
Is there a place in the .NET framework where simple time constants are
defined?
>
For example:
How many days are there in a week? Hours in a day? Minutes in an hour?
Seconds in a minute?
>
None of these are going to change, so they are obviously constants. Now I
can define my own constants, but it would be just as easy to use the
frameworks constants.....i f I could find them.....
>
The logical place to look was System.DateTime .DaysInOneWeek; however, this
does not exist.
>
Thanks,
Dave
>