timer format

[Jollywg]

I'm trying to run a timer for a game. Right now its showing HH;mm:ss:millis econds. I need to format it in HH:mm:ss. How can i do this with this code?


namespace FinalProj
{
public partial class frmFinalProj : Form
{
DateTime start = DateTime.Now;

...

private void timer1_Tick(obj ect sender, EventArgs e)
{
TimeSpan timeElapsed = (DateTime.Now - start);
string formattedTime = timeElapsed.ToS tring();
label1.Text = formattedTime;
}

Thanks for the help

Matt

[Shashi Sadasivan]

string formattedTime = timeElapsed.ToString("HH:mm:ss");

use hh if you wat 01 to be shown as 1 !

[Jollywg]

string formattedTime = timeElapsed.ToString("HH:mm:ss");

use hh if you wat 01 to be shown as 1 !

Thanks for the reply, but when i put the ToString in there it gave me this error error CS1501: No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments
what does this mean?

Thanks

[Curtis Rutland]

Thanks for the reply, but when i put the ToString in there it gave me this error error CS1501: No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments
what does this mean?

Thanks

That would only work using a DateTime. You are using a TimeSpan. I did a little testing, and it seems that a timeSpan.ToStri ng() gives a format of "HH:mm:ss.milis econds" (note the decimal)

So, if you do this:
[code=cpp]
TimeSpan timeElapsed = (DateTime.Now - start);
char[] separator = { '.' };
string[] timeStrings = timeElapsed.ToS tring().Split(s eparator);
string formattedTime = timeStrings[0];
[/code]

You will parse the string around the decimal, and then just ignore it. Unless you want to round it, in which case you could cast timeStrings[1] as an int and do your thing.

[Jollywg]

That would only work using a DateTime. You are using a TimeSpan. I did a little testing, and it seems that a timeSpan.ToStri ng() gives a format of "HH:mm:ss.milis econds" (note the decimal)

So, if you do this:
[code=cpp]
TimeSpan timeElapsed = (DateTime.Now - start);
char[] separator = { '.' };
string[] timeStrings = timeElapsed.ToS tring().Split(s eparator);
string formattedTime = timeStrings[0];
[/code]

You will parse the string around the decimal, and then just ignore it. Unless you want to round it, in which case you could cast timeStrings[1] as an int and do your thing.

Thank you sooo much! It worked!