Question

I am aware that linux has timestamp info available to prog. langs. which is very handy.

I m developing a program and i need to append date time to the created file. and it should be unique.

Later on I want to parse the files, but i want to parse the latest one only.

Is there such option in .net like timestamp in *nix systems?

Any examples out there?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could use the Ticks property of a DateTime structure. It’s not compatible with the UNIX timestamp, but it can be used to return a long (Int64) that represents the date and time with a precision of one ten-millionth of a second. E.g.

DateTime.Now.Ticks

At time of writing this returns the value of 634074617762026300

You can convert ticks back to a DateTime in the constructor. E.g.

DateTime date = new DateTime(634074617762026300);