Question

I want to calculate how much time elapsed between a datetime and now in minutes.
This is what I have:

TimeSpan SinceStatusChange = new TimeSpan();
SinceStatusChange = (double)(DateTime.Now.Date - StatusDateTime).TotalMinutes;

Basically, I’m looking to write this conditional statement:

if (SinceStatusChange is greater than 180 minutes)

How do I write the line “SinceStatusChange = ” so I can later test if the value is greater than 180?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well you are trying to assign a double to a TimeSpan which, for obvious reasons, will not work. You already have what you want really, just use:

// the 'Minutes' property of a TimeSpan object is a double, 
// so the result is a double, not a new TimeSpan object.
double elapsed = (DateTime.Now - StatusDateTime).TotalMinutes;
if( elapsed > 180 )
{
    // do stuff
}