Storing Time in System.DateTime

[Robert]

I have no problem storing dates + times in a
System.DateTime object. In addition, it's easy to output
a Time as a string from an existing Date/Time. But I'm
having trouble storing a time only. Is there any way to
store only a time without the date portion (like 3:00 am)
in this data structure? Or, if not, is there another
data structure that would be preferable?

Thanks

robert

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Storing Time in System.DateTime

Robert <cheetham@pobox .upenn.edu> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have no problem storing dates + times in a
> System.DateTime object. In addition, it's easy to output
> a Time as a string from an existing Date/Time. But I'm
> having trouble storing a time only. Is there any way to
> store only a time without the date portion (like 3:00 am)
> in this data structure? Or, if not, is there another
> data structure that would be preferable?[/color]

No, it will *always* store the date part as well - but that doesn't
mean that you have to take any notice of it. Just create a new DateTime
which has (say) year 1970, month 1, day 1 and then the right time.

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[Bruno Jouhier [MVP]]

Re: Storing Time in System.DateTime

You can store it into a TimeSpan, as the interval of time that elapsed
between midnight and your time.

This way you can easily reconstruct a full date time from a date (at
midnight) and a time, you can just add the time expressed as TimeSpan to the
date.

I find this representation cleaner than a DateTime at an arbitrary date (Jan
1st 1970, Jan 1st 1900, ...).

Bruno.

"Robert" <cheetham@pobox .upenn.edu> a écrit dans le message de
news:06d101c3e9 43$a91d3490$350 1280a@phx.gbl.. .[color=blue]
> I have no problem storing dates + times in a
> System.DateTime object. In addition, it's easy to output
> a Time as a string from an existing Date/Time. But I'm
> having trouble storing a time only. Is there any way to
> store only a time without the date portion (like 3:00 am)
> in this data structure? Or, if not, is there another
> data structure that would be preferable?
>
> Thanks
>
> robert[/color]