Question

I’m having problems deciding on what is the best way is to handle and store time measurements.

I have an app that has a textbox that allows the users to input time in either hh:mm:ss or mm:ss format.

So I was planning on parsing this string, tokenizing it on the colons and creating TimeSpan (or using TimeSpan.Parse() and just adding a ’00:’ to the mm:ss case) for my business logic. Ok?

How do I store this as in a database though? What would the field type be? DateTime seems wrong. I don’t want a time of 00:54:12 to be stored as 1901-01-01 00:54:12 that seems a bit poor?

Answer 1

TimeSpan has an Int64 Ticks property that you can store instead, and a constructor that takes a Ticks value.