Potentially easily solvable question-Help needed! Date/Time Picker

[nem33]

Hello,

Im writing a project that requires the user to select a time using the date/time picker. After the user selects a time that he/she had last done something I want to get that time (DateTimePicker1.Value) and then figure out how many---(days, hours, minutes, seconds) it has been since the time they selected. So if they selected "Sunday, March 16th, 2003 11:19AM" It would say ..."1 day, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 seconds" ..

It's been a while since Ive coded anything and I'm really trying to get the hang of it all again. Any help I might recieve is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[divil]

You can do this by subtracting the date returned by the control from the date now:

 

Dim ts As TimeSpan = DateTime.op_Subtraction(DateTime.Now, DateTimePicker1.Value)

 

TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now - DateTimePicker1.Value;

[nem33]

Excellent--I did this...

 

 Dim ts As TimeSpan = DateTime.op_Subtraction(DateTime.Now, DateTimePicker1.Value)
       Forms.frm1.Label12.Text = System.Convert.ToString(ts) 

Works great Thank you

[nem33]

One last question---The Time returned is always the time of day equal to vurrent system time--How does the user select a time of day as well as a day on the date/time picker? Can both date and time be selected with one date/time picker? I figured out you could select format to time but that seems to take away the 'date' part of it. Any ideas? Thanks again. =)

[tonofsteel]

Yes how do you select TIME with a DateTimePicker??????

[tonofsteel]

Public Sub SetMyCustomFormat()
   ' Set the Format type and the CustomFormat string.
   dateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom
   dateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "yyyy-M-d:H:m"
End Sub 'SetMyCustomFormat

 

 

Note The Format property must be set to DateTimePickerFormat.Custom for this property to affect the formatting of the displayed date/time.