Question

I am in a HR project and I need to define Shift for Employees
Shift had two feilds for punchcards reading , Swipein and swipeOut . I use two datetimepicker with format as time and showupdown as true to set the swipe in and out time
and read like this

public void calculateduration()
    {
        TimeSpan swipein = dtp_toTime.Value.TimeOfDay;
        TimeSpan swipeout = dtp_FromTime.Value.TimeOfDay;
        TimeSpan duration = dtp_toTime.Value.TimeOfDay - dtp_FromTime.Value.TimeOfDay;
        MessageBox.Show(duration.ToString());

    }

in my SQL server database I had all these three feilds swipein ,swipeout,duration as Time datatype ,and I want to insert these values there

For testing I give four values

Swipein Swipeout Duration(output displayed)
8 am 4 pm 8 hrs >>>>its same day sday shift

3 pm 10 pm 8 hrs >> same day daynight shifty

10 pm 6 am(next day) -16 hrs >>> the prblm..8 must come here

Any Idea pls
or can any one tell me an idea to check whether the duration recieved is negative like

if(duration <0)
{
duration= 24-duration;
} 

Answer 1

You can check the values before subtracting them:

TimeSpan duration;
if (swipeout >= swipein) {
  duration = swipeout - swipein;
} else {
  duration = swipeout + new TimeSpan(1, 0, 0, 0) - swipein;
}